Hi Gabriel, I'm not sure that up2date can even run on 6.2. It's clear that you would need at least need an upgrade before you could use up2date for upgrades.
In this case, your better off either downloading the update rpm's from redhat's ftp server: ftp://updates.redhat.com (or even better, use their priority server, if you have access because the updates ftp server is always very slow) and then applying the patches via commands like rpm -Fvh *.rpm. You can accomplish both steps at once using rpm's built -in ftp features, but I don't recommend it. I prefer to have the rpm's copied down first. Note that these updates will likely require you to change lilo.conf and run lilo because of the kernel updates. You will also have to deal with rpm dependency issues but this isn't to hard to learn how to handle rpm dependencies. I'm also upgrading my 6.2 machine to see if the slow connect and other networking issues go away. Cheers!! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of gabriel Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 3:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: updating older os well i thought that running up2date on my rh62 box might help me with my latest problems so i went to the prompt as root and typed "/usr/sbin/up2date -u"... only to realise it hasn't been installed on this machine. so i went to my cd to install it, but the rpm tells me i need the following installed: pygnome is needed by up2date-1.13-1 pygtk is needed by up2date-1.13-1 rpm-python >= 3.0.4 is needed by up2date-1.13-1 usermode >= 1.15 is needed by up2date-1.13-1 and then to install "pygnome" i need: pygtk = 0.6.4 is needed by pygnome-1.0.51-1 gnome-libs is needed by pygnome-1.0.51-1 libXpm.so.4 is needed by pygnome-1.0.51-1 libart_lgpl.so.2 is needed by pygnome-1.0.51-1 libaudiofile.so.0 is needed by pygnome-1.0.51-1 libesd.so.0 is needed by pygnome-1.0.51-1 libgdk-1.2.so.0 is needed by pygnome-1.0.51-1 libgdk_imlib.so.1 is needed by pygnome-1.0.51-1 libgnome.so.32 is needed by pygnome-1.0.51-1 libgnomesupport.so.0 is needed by pygnome-1.0.51-1 libgnomeui.so.32 is needed by pygnome-1.0.51-1 libgtk-1.2.so.0 is needed by pygnome-1.0.51-1 libgtkxmhtml.so.1 is needed by pygnome-1.0.51-1 libzvt.so.2 is needed by pygnome-1.0.51-1 etc. etc. this machine doesn't even have X running, do i really need all this gnome stuff? and if so, isn't there an easier way than single-handedly running each one, looking for dependencies and runningthose, going back etc? it's rh62 on a sparc64 thanks people _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
