Red Hat Network/Up2date - hangs?

[epigram]

Complete linux newbie here, so I apologize up front for any idiotic
questions. :-)

I installed Fedora 3 yesterday and all went fine. I then figured there must
be some sort of update facility for the OS. I stumbled upon the Red Hat
Network utility and decided to run it. Since I really had no idea I was
doing, I just checked all channels and subsequent packages as I went through
the "wizard" screens. It downloaded for a really long time and then
appeared to start installing the udpates. It seems to have hung at some
point yesterday, because when I came in this morning the up2date program was
still up, but was not responding. So, I killed the process.

I am running it again but trying to select only one package at a time to see
if that makes a difference. Any help on what may have caused the lock up
and/or how I should go about the update process would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

[tom]

Post by epigram
Complete linux newbie here, so I apologize up front for any idiotic
questions. :-)
I installed Fedora 3 yesterday and all went fine. I then figured there must
be some sort of update facility for the OS. I stumbled upon the Red Hat
Network utility and decided to run it. Since I really had no idea I was
doing, I just checked all channels and subsequent packages as I went through
the "wizard" screens. It downloaded for a really long time and then
appeared to start installing the udpates. It seems to have hung at some
point yesterday, because when I came in this morning the up2date program was
still up, but was not responding. So, I killed the process.

I would suggest you use Yum or Apt for updating/installing packages to
your system. Up2date has improved, but I have found it to still be
problematic.

You can check www.fedoranews.org for some nice setup info on both Yum and
Apt. Both have nice GUI front end add-ons if you prefer that experience.
Both programs are reliable when setup properly.

tom

[ric_man]

Post by epigram
I installed Fedora 3 yesterday and all went fine. I then figured there must
be some sort of update facility for the OS. I stumbled upon the Red Hat
Network utility and decided to run it. Since I really had no idea I was
doing, I just checked all channels and subsequent packages as I went through
the "wizard" screens. It downloaded for a really long time and then
appeared to start installing the udpates. It seems to have hung at some
point yesterday, because when I came in this morning the up2date program was
still up, but was not responding. So, I killed the process.
I am running it again but trying to select only one package at a time to see
if that makes a difference. Any help on what may have caused the lock up
and/or how I should go about the update process would be much appreciated.

Try this link:

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware

It suggests using yum. I recently installed Fedora Core 3, and noticed
it took a long time to contact up2date and do what it had to do. I
googled and found the link above.

HTH,

...Ric