Update Button is gone, Fedora 2

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri May 6 13:53:57 UTC 2005


On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 08:39:56AM -0500, Bradley (FC2 List) wrote:
> I accidentally blew away my launch panel toolbar.
> I have been able to replace everything except the green/red ball that
> indicates new updates available.
> I suspect is is simple but I haven't been able to find a solution.
> Any help would be appreciated.

Paul suggests how to fix this, but you may want to consider leaving it off
-- the applet is very inefficient and a shocking memory hog. Instead, you
could run "yum -d0 check-update" out of cron, and then you'd get mail (to
root, by default) saying when updates are available....

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