Re: PSA: Do not run 'dnf update' inside GNOME, KDE or any other graphical desktop on Fedora 24

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stan wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 00:20:25 +0200
> Björn Persson <Bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
> > In a VT I'll often be unable to review the list of updates before
> > hitting Y, as I'll only see the end of the list.  
> 
> An alternative to Adam's suggestions.
> 
> It takes a couple of logins as root, but running
> dnf update > /tmp/dnf_out 2> /tmp/dnf_ror
> in one terminal and then doing a 
> less /tmp/dnf_*
> in another allows a view of the updates before approving or denying
> them. When you see the (y or N) in the less output, go back to the
> console running the program and make your selection.  A little clumsy,
> but works fine.

It's pretty obvious that improvement is needed when people start to
suggest *that* kind of hack-arounds.

Björn Persson

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