Tuesday, May 23, 2006

yum-MY

I mean... wow... Fedora Linux has so much cool stuff now. But I blame myself for living under a rock for so long.

In version FC4, there's a silly bug when you change the Security Level. After you add a port that doesn't have a name (I was trying to add the BitTorrent port), the system-config-securitylevel.i386 will crash thereafter, with some lame port-name error.

The fix? Download and install the new version. And figure out the dependencies for it, and download and install the new version for the dependencies as well. Oh heck!

But now, there's yum.
[root@localhost norman]# yum list installed *sec*
to see the version currently installed.

[root@localhost norman]# yum remove *sec*
to remove current install.

[root@localhost norman]# yum install *sec*
to find new updates, and install them.


Freakin' sweet.

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