Yum update

Richmond Pabilona rpabilonia at cyberjresources.com
Tue Feb 24 01:53:48 UTC 2004


lwj wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 17:16, Richmond Pabilona wrote:
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>>Hi guys,
>>    I ran "yum install xmms-mp3" to install mp3 capability to xmms 
>>player, the yum started downloading/updating all of the software 
>>packages headers, it went for almost an hour but suddenly my internet 
>>connection disconnected so i was not able to complete it.  This was the 
>>first time i ran yum, does yum really behave this way? i mean does it 
>>update all the headers before it installs a package? Will the xmms-mp3 
>>be installed after it finish updating the packages?
>>
>>    
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>Yes, it updates the headers every time it is run. Of course the first
>time you run it all (most ?) of the headers are out of date. It takes a
>bit of time the first time. After that it should be much faster since
>most headers will not be out of date.
>
>Also, make sure that you are using a mirror and not the main Redhat
>site. The main site is overloaded most of the time. If you are not sure
>how to do this you can search the archives. The information is also
>available on the "unofficial fedora faq"(google finds it rather nicely)
>and maybe an official one by now.
>
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Thank you for the info!





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