updating Fedora 7 & KDE

[Rahul Sundaram]

Kevin Kempter wrote:
> Hi List;
> 
> in the past I've always had to add a KDE repo to /etc/yum.repos.d/ and run 
> a "yum update" or "yum install <kde stuff>" to get a fully updated system.
> 
> Likewise after my initial install I usually had lots of updates to be applied.
> 
> Upon installing Fedora 7 I went to the update tool (smart I think) and I only 
> had a short list of updates.
> 
> Is this really the full list of updates to bring my system current?

Yes.

> 
> Do I need to add a new repo to yum or smart (or both) to get the latest stable 
> KDE updates ?

No.

> 
> Are there any other useful repos I should add? 

This depends. If you need proprietary, patent restricted software then yes.

is the extras repo
> automatically added or do I need to add it myself?

Fedora 7 has core and extras repositories merged into a single central 
repository so no.

> 
> When I did the install I went to the dialog to add additional repositories and 
> it wanted a url and a name only. I had no clue what url to enter so I skipped 
> it. 

This is only required if you need to select packages from a third party 
or custom repository.

Rahul