yum up2date

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Mo, den 17.11.2003 schrieb steven rosen um 02:22:
> As you will see I'm new to this having recently installed RH9 and 
> planning to migrate to Fedora. I use the Up to Date icon which came with 
> the original install. 

You can still use up2date in Fedora

> Now that RH9 is to be abandoned, I want to know 
> how to get Yum installed 

Yum in installed by default

> so I can get automatic updates w/ all dependant 
> files. 

There already is a service for nightly updates via yum, you just need to
enable it.

> Is there a tutorial or basic instructions in general terms  
> showing what files or rpms I need to get for Yum

you'll need the yum-<version>.rpm, that's all.

>  and how to install them 
> so that I click an icon and get everything updated.

Well, not with a click, but you can do "yum update" on the console. If
you add "-y" you can do it automatically (an even from a starter-icon),
but you won't have any feedback to see what's going on.

I think someone on this list posted a script, which will update your
system and send you an email with the changes.

> I've checked Google, this mailing list and the Red Hat usenet group but 
> everything assumes that Yum is installed and running. There is no man 
> page for Yum.

There /is/ a man page for yum (it's in man 8).
Yum is pretty simple. Type "yum" and read the instructions. 

Christoph