[PLUG] up2date not updating
Colin Kuskie
ckuskie at dalsemi.com
Mon Feb 3 17:35:02 UTC 2003
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:31:17PM -0800, Steven Raymond wrote:
> Colin Kuskie said:
> > I've tried running up2date on the command line with -v for more
> > verbose output, which it doesn't produce. I've also tried
> > just downloading RPMs, which it won't download.
>
> One annoying aspect is that when running up2date from CLI, you must pass
> it a switch, -u in order for it to actually follow through with the
> updating of your system.
> I assume you've already learned the --nox switch, which doesn't fire up
> the gui front end? Try up2date --help for more examples. The --configure
> switch should let you specify which packages to skip (kernel is by default
> skipped).
>
> > Has anyone out there tried this and succeeded?
>
> Yes, up2date works great for me.
so you're saying the answer is:
up2date --nox --update
I've tried so many combinations that I'm sure I tried that, but I'll
give it a shot when I get home.
Thanks,
Colin
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