Red Hat Newbie - What do I really need?

[Kevin Brown]

up2date has only updated packages that I currently have installed.  Maybe you
should uninstall the packages or don't select them when up2date shows you what
it has updates available for.

Frank Mandato wrote:
> 
>    You don't want to use up2date --- use update agent. With update agent
> you can pick and choose what you want installed, or upgraded.
> 
>   The last time I ran up2date it upgraded everything, even stuff I did
> not want or need.
> 
>   They may have changed this by now, I don't know, but Ximian Red Carpet
> Updater works well too.
> 
>   FrankM
> 
> On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 17:15, Austin Godber wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 16:21, Matt Alexander wrote:
> > > On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Craig Smith wrote:
> > > > What is the difference between 7.2 and 7.3? Will
> > > > "up2date" update my 7.2 to 7.3?
> > >
> > > 7.3 includes KDE 3.0, which you'll probably want.  I haven't used up2date
> > > so I can't comment.
> >
> > I don't think up2date is a free service/product.  Either way, I haven't
> > used it since a long time ago.  I have had decent luck using Ximian's
> > Red-Carpet.  If you install the Ximian Gnome desktop or just the base
> > package with evolution (a decent email client) you will get Red-Carpet.
> > And you can keep your red hat distro up to date along with the ximian
> > packages and open office ... there are several other things you can keep
> > updated with.  It seems to work pretty well.
> >
> > Austin
> >
> 
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