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Great, didn't know that about rpmfusion now doing el7. Anyone know if 
nux-desktop repo and rpmfusion can be mixed together? It's not mentioned 
on their FAQ.



On 2017-01-26 21:32, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 26/01/17 20:02, Yasha Karant wrote:
>> Yesterday afternoon, I did a successful update from production 7.2 to
>> production 7.3 through yumex.  In addition to the SL production
>> repositories, I use the epel, elrepo, and google-chrome repositories 
>> for
>> specific add-ons, including nvidia support.  I only use kernels from
>> SL.  Although the update was slow, it taking a very long time for the
>> nvidia portion to complete cleanup (I left after a 5 minute wait), 
>> when
>> I came back this morning, everything appears to be working, including
>> applications that have not been touched since I first installed SL 7
>> (e.g., UCSF chimera, Weizmann grace).  The machine to which this was
>> done has a 802.3 wired connection to a USA university research
>> backbone.  The next thing to update is my laptop that has a 802.11
>> connection to a production network, significantly lower data rate.  Is
>> there any way to get a list of the required RPMs, download and burn
>> these to a DVD, and then have yumex use the DVDs, only going to the
>> network to get additional RPMs that turn out to be needed?
>> 
>> Yasha Karant
>> 
> # cat /var/log/yum.log ?
> 
> yumex History shows I had 453 packages initially, then 86 more
> security packages after a reboot.  I also had 1 auto and one manual
> update of the same google-chrome-stable package earlier today.  Seems
> strange.
> 
> rpmfusion announced support for el7 today.  Switching from nux looks
> as if it could be 'interesting'
> 
> John P

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