Okay Ill Admit it ... I'm still learning ...!

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

If they are updates, do not use the -i option. Use:
rpm -Uvh /var/cache/yum/updates/packages/*.rpm
Your original mistake was most likely not editing /etc/yum.conf to point
to an Australian mirror (the mirror.pacific.net.au one is good) prior to
issuing a "yum update" command. Don't use the default settings in that
file.

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:15:43 -0800, Hex Star wrote:

> are they rpms? if so just do su root in a terminal prompt, enter your
> root password when prompted and then type in cd
> /var/cache/yum/updates/packages/ then next type in rpm -i rpmname.rpm
> to install the rpms which contain the updates...this is, of course,
> assuming the archived updates are rpms (never chosen to archive
> updates before)
> 
> 
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 18:06:56 +1100, Irena and Richard Jenkins
> <richard.jenkins at internode.on.net> wrote:
>> Now I have downloaded a full set of updates for my YDL 4.0 installation.  It
>> took much of the day to achieve this ... but now they are all sitting in
>> my /var/cache/yum/updates/packages/ directory.
>> 
>> Trouble is I cannot work out what the next yum command should be!!  Can anyone
>> help please (put the man out of his misery).
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Richard
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