Can't upgrade FC1

[Gordon R. Keehn]

    Try synaptic.  IMHO it's got a better interface than up2date, and 
I've *never* had a problem with it.  One of the things I really like is 
that I can remove and install packages at the same time, through a very 
nice GUI.  This lets me (for example) install a new kernel update and 
remove the generation -2 kernel in the same process.  Using up2date, I 
had to manually remove old kernel versions periodically, or run out of 
space.  I don't believe it automatically downloads and installs kernel 
upgrades (although this may be an option;  see next paragraph) but it's 
so easy to search for new versions and request them manually that I 
haven't found this to be an issue.
    By default synaptic maps a reasonable list of archives, and I've 
never had significant performance problems.  Adding or removing archives 
is a snap, through a GUI dialog.  I haven't tried playing with options, 
beyond adding an archive to pick up the latest wine distributions, so I 
can't comment on how far from the defaults it's possible to go.  Like 
up2date, packages are downloaded to a directory under /var.  I've 
mounted (smbfs) a directory on my Win2K server (which has a cd burner) 
at this point, so packages are downloaded directly to (and installed 
from) a hard drive on the server.  Once a month or so I can offload the 
whole batch to CD to free up space.
    The bottom line is that I would never voluntarily switch back to 
up2date.
    Cheers,
Gordon Keehn


Michael Kearey wrote:

> Mike Adolf wrote:
> 
>> Tried to upgrade FC1 to latest release, but...
>>
>> up2date says core is up to date but uname -r = 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl, 
>> which is old.
>>
> 
> I am not completely sure about your particular problem.. However many 
> problems with up2date can be solved by setting up to use a mirror that 
> is up to the task of serving  thousands..
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-January/msg01577.html
> 
> Alternatives to up2date exist, like yum and apt-get for rpm. See 
> http://fedora.artoo.net  for lots of good info.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
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