On 05/30/2010 07:26 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: > >> After doing fedora version upgrades, it's always a good idea to refresh >> the default pkg list via >> yum groupinstall kde-desktop >> (repeat process for any installed desktops) to ensure you have all the >> newest, default package set installed. > > I always follow your advice ... > so I did the above, and found it installed 100MB (70 packages). > But I don't understand why? > Why didn't "yum update" (which I run every couple of days) find them? at least 2 reasons. 1. if you installed via fedora kde live image, the live cd is only a subset of what is included in the full kde-desktop group (to make it cd sized) 2. if you do a fedora release upgrade, e.g. fedora 12 -> fedora 13, the default packageset sometimes changes a little. One of the changes highlighted in this thread was the addition of installing and using knetworkmanager (by default) in f13. -- Rex
