Updating methods

[Beartooth]

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:05:33 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:

> 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.

	Well, that makes sense; and I presume you mean the executable in /
usr/bin, rather than the config file in /usr/share/applications; but 
ouch! There are scads of them!
-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.