Yumex to do updates instead of plain yum.

[Melio]

I had a problem installing updates with yum with an FC4 dvd install right out of the box.

I wanted to do like a full update. so I did

yum update as root and it failed.

that frustrated me. because it took several hours to get the headers

.. I decided that yumex handled repos better. by checking them or something i dono. it must just work better otherwise the author has no reason to write it ..

anyhow. doing updates with that worked.

I hope this helps people

it may not get everything. but I did do a manual kernel update first.

rebooted. then did a yum update yum

then did a yum install yumex

then ran yumex and did updates thru that interface.

it's possible the original repos were just temporarly down for repair or something. but geezus. That's discouraging.

[DoorGunner]

you need to do a bit of yum configuring.

Stanton-Finley has some nice installation instructions you can use.....Handier than hell.
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...ion_notes.html

in the first sections it will talk about yum repositories and about mixing them....start there. and work your way along......believe me.....it will save a lot of heart ache

[Melio]

yum configurations shouldn't be required at first boot updates.

I'm using just the standard repos with yum.

I put yumex on my box because even with standard repos. the updates were failing.

[Spoon!]

can you post the yum output so we can see how it fails?

[bob]

Melio, Yumex is using your existing yum.repos.d configuration - it doesn't automatically create one. So, the command-line "yum update" should produce the exact same response as you're seeing in Yumex.