On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:01:48 -0500, epigram wrote:

> Complete linux newbie here, so I apologize up front for any idiotic
> questions. :-)
>
> I installed Fedora 3 yesterday and all went fine. I then figured there must
> be some sort of update facility for the OS. I stumbled upon the Red Hat
> Network utility and decided to run it. Since I really had no idea I was
> doing, I just checked all channels and subsequent packages as I went through
> the "wizard" screens. It downloaded for a really long time and then
> appeared to start installing the udpates. It seems to have hung at some
> point yesterday, because when I came in this morning the up2date program was
> still up, but was not responding. So, I killed the process.
>

I would suggest you use Yum or Apt for updating/installing packages to
your system. Up2date has improved, but I have found it to still be
problematic.

You can check www.fedoranews.org for some nice setup info on both Yum and
Apt. Both have nice GUI front end add-ons if you prefer that experience.
Both programs are reliable when setup properly.

tom

tom wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:01:48 -0500, epigram wrote:
>
>
>>Complete linux newbie here, so I apologize up front for any idiotic
>>questions. :-)
>>
>>I installed Fedora 3 yesterday and all went fine. I then figured there must
>>be some sort of update facility for the OS. I stumbled upon the Red Hat
>>Network utility and decided to run it. Since I really had no idea I was
>>doing, I just checked all channels and subsequent packages as I went through
>>the "wizard" screens. It downloaded for a really long time and then
>>appeared to start installing the udpates. It seems to have hung at some
>>point yesterday, because when I came in this morning the up2date program was
>>still up, but was not responding. So, I killed the process.
>>
>
>
> I would suggest you use Yum or Apt for updating/installing packages to
> your system. Up2date has improved, but I have found it to still be
> problematic.
>
> You can check www.fedoranews.org for some nice setup info on both Yum and
> Apt. Both have nice GUI front end add-ons if you prefer that experience.
> Both programs are reliable when setup properly.
>
> tom
>
Agreed Yum update is great - I do an automated update every week using
cron and have never had a problem.

epigram wrote:
> I installed Fedora 3 yesterday and all went fine. I then figured there must
> be some sort of update facility for the OS. I stumbled upon the Red Hat
> Network utility and decided to run it. Since I really had no idea I was
> doing, I just checked all channels and subsequent packages as I went through
> the "wizard" screens. It downloaded for a really long time and then
> appeared to start installing the udpates. It seems to have hung at some
> point yesterday, because when I came in this morning the up2date program was
> still up, but was not responding. So, I killed the process.
>
> I am running it again but trying to select only one package at a time to see
> if that makes a difference. Any help on what may have caused the lock up
> and/or how I should go about the update process would be much appreciated.

Try this link:

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware

It suggests using yum. I recently installed Fedora Core 3, and noticed
it took a long time to contact up2date and do what it had to do. I
googled and found the link above.

HTH,

....Ric
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