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Distribution: Mint 20.1 on workstation, Debian 11 on servers
Posts: 1,328
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Why can't I update anything?
I'm using FC5, trying to update samba, and no luck. Keep getting these errors:
Quote:
[root@borg ~]# yum update samba
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
core [1/3]
extras [2/3]
updates [3/3]
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Could not find update match for samba
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
[root@borg ~]#
I've also tried to put smb, samba-server, smbd, samba-common etc.... no luck, same error.
Yes. Same here: I run FC2, and "yum" slowly stopped working years ago. It's just that no repositories are out there that carry such old Fedora any more.
I will probably try to upgrade my old FedoraCore to Ubuntu (e.g., Hardy Heron) -- their "synaptic" works GREAT, in comparison to "yum".
Distribution: Mint 20.1 on workstation, Debian 11 on servers
Posts: 1,328
Original Poster
Rep:
Damn thats what I was afraid of. Guess thats what you get for something free, they drop support the minute a new distro comes out. This is my main prod server so I can't be formatting this thing every month, is there anything else I can do to force it to upgrade the apps at least?
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