Re: [edlug] SuSE updates

[Alex Wasserman <a.wasserman@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

If you fire up YOU it will tell you which updates to get...
Then on the SuSE site you use the rpms available in:

ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpms/

Then choose an architecture... ie. 586? for a modernish machine...

Alternatively use a mirror closer to you.

Once downloaded you can either just install them with

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

to update verbosly and display a progress bar all rpm files in the 
current directory.

I think you should be able to point YOU at a directory with them in, if 
you want to do that. After they are installed YOU will recognize them 
which ever method you used.

me

On 12 Mar 2004, at 10:26, Catriona & Anand wrote:

> Can any SuSE experts on the list help me with this:
>
> I administer a friend's computer for her. She has a reasonably modern 
> pc
> running SuSE 8.1. Her internet connection is a dial up link through a
> conventional 56 kbps modem.
>
> Yast Online Update (YOU) is clearly aimed at people with faster links. 
> (I find
> it slow enough on my own 512 kbps cable broadband connection, although 
> this
> is probably mainly due to the demand on the SuSE mirrors.) Attempts to 
> update
> my friend's machine directly via dial up have never worked.
>
> My question is, can I effectively mirror selected parts of the SuSE 
> tree on my
> own machine (downloading at a time of night when demand is low) and 
> burn a CD
> with which to update my friend's machine? If I can do this, where in 
> the tree
> do I look for the relevant patches?
>
> TIA
>
> Anand
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