Red Hat updates

[chochem]

Hey all. First, I just want to thank all you guys that answered my questions about distros and other crap http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif It was very much appreciated. However, I had one question. I just installed 6.2, and I looked at the bugs/fixes and security advisory stuff on redhat.com. Man, there is a ton of it? Is there like an easy way or in windows temrs "Service Pack" that is available? Thanks again.

[fancypiper]

I'll assume you are using x.

Open up an x-terminal and command:

su -

give the root password and command:


rpm -qa | sort > /home/username/rpms-installed.txt


That queries all the rpms that are installed and pipes it to a file rpms-installed.txt in your users home directory. Examine that list, download updates of the programs you have installed, perhaps in directory /home/username/updates.

Then after you have them downloaded, update them (gotta be root as above) with the command:


rpm -Uvh /home/username/updates/*


There are GUI tools, but it's smart to learn the command line.



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