cannot update to latest, how should I proceed to apply updates

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, José Matos wrote:

> On Tuesday 04 March 2008 05:15:42 Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > At least two options.  One is to wait for fixed packages.  Bugzilla
> > says already that they are coming.  If you are impatient then
> > another option is to retrieve rpm for smbios-utils and
> >    
> >     rpm -Uvh --replacefiles smbios-utils*.rpm
> >
> > Upcoming updates should clean-up a resulting mess (or do that
> > yourself).
>
> I am surprised no one suggested this before. :-)
>
> # yum shell --skip-broken
> > update
> > remove libsmbios-bin
> > run
>
>  I did and it works. :-)

when i try that yum command, i get:

  Command line error: no such option: --skip-broken

did you have to install a yum plugin first?

rday
--

========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry:
    Have classroom, will lecture.

http://crashcourse.ca                          Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
========================================================================