Fedora 12 Update Error

[Henry Wyatt]

Yes it did,thanks you are a genius!

Henry

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Sawrub <luckysharma11 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 04/11/2010 08:47 PM, Henry Wyatt wrote:
>
> How do I become superuser "root" ?
>
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:20:20 -0400, Henry wrote:
>>
>> > Just installed Fedora 12, much better than other operating systems.  I
>> am
>> > new to this and have the following problem.  I cannot update software,
>> > update fails, I will send error mesage at next attempt to update.
>>
>>  Might be an idea to open a terminal, become superuser "root", and
>> run:  yum update yum\* PackageKit\*
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> Right at the top left corner of the screen is the dropdown menu listing
> Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal.
> Once the Terminal is up and running at the prompt type in
> $ su -
> the system will ask for the ROOT [super] user password. Once that is typed
> and submitted the prompt will change to #, and will be ready for accepting
> commands allowed for super user ,and then you can run
> # yum update yum
> or simply the following command as yours is a fresh install.
> # yum update
>
> Hope this helps.
>
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