Problems with RHN Fedora Core 2
Timothy Payne
tim at tmpco.com
Sat Nov 6 03:05:23 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 22:25, Gerald Thompson wrote:
> windtim at libero.i wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> > i've Fedora Core 2 and i'm trying to update my configuration with RHN. I've
> >registered nyself on the site, tryed to connect toRHN either trough up2date from
> >shell either trought the botton on GNOME desktop but in all cases it gives me
> >the same errors "Temporary failure in name resolution". I'm behind a proxy and
> >i've settted but connction to RHN fails yet. Can you help me? Thans a lot in advance
> >
> >
> >
> I really strongly recommend you use yum
> - find your nearest mirror
> - http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
>
> - then update your /etc/yum.conf file with your mirror's base folder and
> updates folder for your version of fedora
> - now you can just run yum check-update from command line
> - yum update <leave blank for all updates, or type package name for
> specific update>
> - yum install <package name> for a package you haven't installed already
>
> - I can't remember the command for removing a package but just go to man
> yum for that one
>
> I highly recommend yum, ever since I first had to learn how to use it, I
> was totally surprised at how easy it is to learn compare to most package
> management tools. Also updating the yum.conf with the mirrors is really
> easy. ALWAYS USE A MIRROR or it will be slow and time out on you. The
> default servers are too slow.
>
> Gerald
geraldt at telus.net
At: http://www.fedorafaq.org/
They have a good yum.conf to download, it's worked well for me.
Tim...
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