On Tuesday 06 February 2007 01:15, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 22:21 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > > Do the security updates have to be installed immediately after > > install? What happens if,. e.g install Firefox 2.0 over Firefox 1.5 > > (the current version). Do I still need to install the security update > > for Firefox? Or should I first install the security update and then > > update Firefox to the latest 2.x version? > > Updates apply to specific packages. If you're going to remove one, > remove it before doing any updates. Then, when you go to do updates, > they'll be for what you've got installed. > > Related to that, you can ignore or remove things that you're not going > to use. e.g. If you're never going to use OpenOffice.org, you can forgo > the updates for it, or even remove the thing entirely. > > -- > (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's > important to the thread.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. Dear Tim: Thank you for your good advice. Will keep it in mind. Benjamin
