I was wondering to peoples opinions as the most efficent and easy way to update all system packages and kernel on a Fedora Core 3 install. It seems occassionally up2date with the Red Hat Network will work, but if I try to select multiple packages to update it appears like it will do nothing... With YUM last time I tried to do yum it didnt seem to work to well and took a while. Are there any other efficent ways to update the system on FC3? Or how to get up2date with the Red Hat Network performing better? Thanks I just want it to be easy to use update it and do it all efficently and hassle free after a reformat.

There used to be apt-rpm, but Fedora has no official apt repositories as far as I know. You'll have to use the freshrpm or other third party repositories to use apt. That said, they tend to contain pretty much the same things as the fedora repos, plus some extras. You may want to inquire whether they really in fact _are_ the same packages.

I think the url is
http://www.freshrpms.net

You can download an rpm package of apt from that website.

HTH,

Samsara

Are there any other ways or to get yum and up2date working properly?

yum is slow because written in python, which is a scripting language, so it needs to be compiled/interpreted every time you run yum.

up2date I've never really used.

Samsara

Samsara, so do you use apt rpm or whatever? I would just use yum if I knew it would work right.... I tried confuging yum.conf better but no luck yet

my up2date seems to work properly. I left it at the stock option. sure it takes 2 hours to download and install everything because the update is about 300 MB worth of stuff. It'll take 2 hours even on my ADSL modem. but my advice...live with it.

The reason i dont think its working because I select multiple packages ion the Red Hat Network and theres like 2 bars for oveerall progress and they never seem to move at all and I just got the sense before it wasnt doing anything.... I think it might of froze a couple times too. Its been a month or 2 since i did it, or at least tried.

how fast is your connection? you also might want to update up2date (I don't know if that's possible, but try using yum to do that)

Im on a standard ADSL connection.... My comp is causing the comp since I have about 11 GOOD computers and they most all suffer the problem.... Ill look into updating up2date but if anyone else has any comments their always welcome.

(sorry for the choppy quote, but wrap around obviously isn't working)

Does your internet connection work at all on Fedora? I had to download PPPoE software in order to get mine to visit web pages and all of that stuff through the ADSL modem. If you are having problems with this then I would suggest downloading RP-PPPoE (Roaring Penguin PPPoE) to get Fedora to accept your ADSL modem.

Yes the net connection works great on all of the comps. Gaming, HTTP, FTP, GAIM, never had a problem... Any ideas? up2date with the Red Hat network usually works if i only select 1 package or a couple at max.

Anyone have any ideas? If not I may just select 50 packages, out of like the 500 available, and just do that all night........ And hopefully doing 50 will work today.

a full update isn't absolutely necessary. I have FC3 installed on my laptop without the updates and it works fine. I would suggest leaving the computer as is, and update when necessary using "yum update xxxx".

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also yum and up2date freeze when the server is full for me too.

I think I may just use up2date with the Red hat Network, or at least try, and just acquire like the latest kernel, Xorg, and other packages I commonly use. Im more comfortable using up2date Red Hat Network than yum even though I do yum a bunch.......

I don't know if they have up2date mirrors, but look into adding a mirror site near your locale.