09-30-04 03:46 PM
When you have a lot of packages to update, the dependency check will take
a very very long time. "up2date" is usually slow.
check if you have 'yum' installed
-> rpm -qa | grep yum
if it's installed, just type
-> yum update
if not, surf for the rpm package, get the one for your distribution and
install it -> rpm -Uvh yum*.rpm
(remember that you'll have to have root rights to install all of above)
you can google for 'yum' and read more about it,
like how to update, etc.
you can also read about 'apt', and it's GUI package management 'synaptic'
all of these are package management utilities. stick to one, of which you
are comfortable. yum is text based
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:25:42 +0000, Mark Healey wrote:
> I istalled fedora core 2 and went to run up2date. It hangs when the
> dialog box saying "Testing package set/service RMP inter-dependencies"
> The HDD LED on my box flashes briefly about every two seconds.
>
> When I click the close button on the dialog box I get a message saying
> that it isn't responding with the opion to force close or continue.
> If I continue the symptoms described in the first paragraph return.
>
> So I force it closed.
>
> What do I check?
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