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hal0
21st April 2006, 08:54 PM
Hey everyone.
I know that I do a full system update with

Code:
su -c 'yum update'

First thing I did was running the software updater.
Letīs say there is a new version of Firefox available, will it be updated with the software updater?
Cheers
-hal0

dishawjp
21st April 2006, 09:06 PM
yes. But that's a "trick" answer. If there is an updated version available in the repositories, then you will get the updatedd version installed. But with Fedora, you generally only get bug and security fixes and only rarely updated versions.

If, for example, you're running FC5, you are most likely running firefox 1.5.<something> . In my case it's
firefox-1.5.0.2-1.2.fc5
If Mozilla were to do a major version release, say up to 2.0 or something, we would not likely see it in Fedora (officially) until hte next Fedora release. There is nothing stopping you from going out and downloading and installing any updated software that you feel you can't wait for.

HTH,

Jim

hal0
21st April 2006, 09:37 PM
Thanks for your fast reply, dishawjp. The bug and security fixes are the most important I think.

Cheers
-hal0