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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Sunday, May 9, 2004 2:39:56 am | by StuartYeates | Revert |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Saturday, May 8, 2004 6:14:50 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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+This page has instructions for keeping your Linux computer up-to-date with securtiy updates and patches. The mechanisms differ for each distribution.
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!![Fedora]
Fedora comes with a utility called 'yum'. Red Hat provides a frontend to this called up2date (this used to be the Red Hat network front end). However, if you have a Fedora Core 1 install, up2date is broken as Red Hat signed packages with a key that has now expired. Run
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!! GentooLinux
...emerge world? A Gentoo user needs to fill me in...
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+!![Knoppix]
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+[Knoppix] is designed to boot of a read-only media such as a [CDROM] and no security patches are issued. It's important to check that you're using a copy of the most recent version of [Knoppix] if you are using it for non-trivial tasks.
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