On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 08:19:58PM +0300, Juan Fernandez wrote: > I use RH on many machines.yum updates only thr rpms,what if I want to > recieve and install not only rpms I mean patches and stuff ,what i need to > do? Yum only works with rpms. It is strongly recommened that you use rpm to keep your system up to date. If you start installing software "manually" via "configure; make; make install" or other ways (I'm not sure what you mean by "patches and stuff") it's very easy to lose track of what's going on and build up cruft. You might think to yourself: there should be some system for tracking all that stuff so you DON'T lose track. There is such a system: use rpms via yum :) -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department, the University of Arizona 520-626-1619 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 ECE 524G
