[WBEL-users] New install after up2date no keyboard

William Hooper whooperhsd2@earthlink.net
Fri, 31 Dec 2004 13:15:20 -0500 (EST)


Robert Moskowitz said:
> At 10:13 PM 12/30/2004, William Hooper wrote:
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>> Robert Moskowitz said:
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>>> At 07:31 PM 12/30/2004, William Hooper wrote:
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>>>> Robert Moskowitz said:
>>>> [snip]
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>>>>> The first thing I did after establishing that the interfaces were
>>>>>  working was to run up2date (that really runs yum).
>>>>
>>>> No, it doesn't.  Yum and up2date are two separate programs that
>>>> happen to be able to use the same package repos.
>>>
>>> I got this from the FAQ at whiteboxlinux.org
>>>
>>
>> Please quote it.  I'm not seeing it.
>>
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> From:  http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/faq.html
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> How is WhiteBox Linux updated?
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> Obviously RHN isn't available as an option, so yum has been brought in
> from Fedora along with a version of up2date that can work with yum. So
> pick Up2Date Network from the menu and it basically "just works".

"can work with yum" in the same sense that Openoffice.org "can work with"
Microsoft Office files.  It doesn't mean up2date runs yum or that
Openoffice.org runs Microsoft Office.

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William Hooper