Updating methods

[Richard Hughes]

2009/8/15 Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net>:
>        I've been dutifully updating my own machines with gpk-update-
> viewer; but ssh -X for some reason doesn't seem to handle it well when I
> update my wife's, on another floor. So, rather than bite off more
> troubleshooting than I can hope to chew, I've just gone back to plain ssh
> to my userid on her machine, then su - , then yum clean all followed by
> yum update.

You need to change the authorisations in polkit-gnome-authorization
before PackageKit will let you do trusted stuff without being on
console.

Richard.