Up2date alternative

[Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 07:39:34PM -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> > 
> > >If Up2date fails, does fedora offer a website or ftp where I can go and 
> > >manually get updates?
> > > 

> > Yes, see
> > 
> > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/
> > 
> > http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
> > 
> > 
> > You might also try "yum" if you're unhappy with the performance of up2date.
> > 
> > Jeremy
> T is not clear to me how you get yum to download a particular update
> file rather tham all available files.

Try this:

    yum  list updates
    yum install <onefromabove>

The "list" flag of yum has a long list of good options.


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