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Robert Haines <[log in to unmask]>
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Robert Haines <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:49:14 +0100
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Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> Robert Haines wrote:
> 
>>> In the beginning I had this problem myself too, however anything 
>>> looks OK to me now. Try doing a
>>>
>>> yum clean all
>>>
>>> and then
>>>
>>> yum upgrade
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the info, but why a 'yum upgrade' and not a 'yum update'?
>
> As I had mentioned in an email of mine few days ago, when I made a fresh 
> installation of SL in my PC, I performed a "yum update" and was 
> performing abnormal termination during the update process. Then I tried 
> "yum upgrade", and it worked.

But I'm not seeing (and have never seen) abnormal termination in yum. 
It's just that 'yum update' doesn't seem to be doing what it should - 
update *all* packages to the latest version!

Rob

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