Thoughts and Questions On Yum, Up2Date. Etc.

[William Hooper]

shrek-m at gmx.de said:
> Davy Brion wrote:
>
>> up2date has no way of listing available packages that aren't installed
>>
>>already... not sure if the CLI version allows it, but the GUI version
>>doesn't. so up2date doesn't allow 'adding new software from official
>>repositories'
>>
>>
>
> update is_not install
>
> $ man up2date
> NAME
>        Update Agent - a program for updating packages on Red Hat Linux

If you had only read the man page...

"If you supply package names on the command line, those particular
packages will be updated or installed if there are new versions
available."

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William Hooper