Installing Yum
Jimmy Barnett Jr
barn65 at bellsouth.net
Fri Apr 29 10:59:57 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 11:43 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Jimmy Barnett Jr wrote:
> > ok as a Newbie to linux I have heard alot about yum and updates. I have
> > it downloaded and sitting on my desktop. where do I need to move it too?
> > and how do I go about getting it installed and running? thanks in
> > advance...
>
> You shouldn't need to install it; it's installed by default in Fedora.
>
> Try (as root):
> # yum update
>
> If that doesn't work, please state what you have downloaded, the version
> of Fedora you are using, and what the output of the command "rpm -q yum" is.
>
> Paul.
>
Thanks Paul...i was not aware that I had to update from root using yum.
This worked..Thanks again..
Jimmy
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