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How to update Redhat 7.2 using up2date?

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by ryder007 3 views

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Hello I'm hoping someone will be able to help me with this, My problem is I installed RH 7.2 but it does not support my Radeon 7500 agp card, so all i get is a command line at boot. I did login and ran up2date, which in turn had me register and download the public key. Now that I have the key I'm not sure as how to download the rpms, if anyone knows more in detail how to do this it would be greatly appreciated. I believe the updates will have support for my card, unfortunately I'm completely new to redhat so I'm kind of dumb. Thanks Dean

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by techrepublic

I will assume that you and your machine are registered at redhat.com through the redhat network. (You are entitled to one free registration even if you have installed it the "free" way)

A quick search shows:

"XFree86 updated to 4.1.0, and includes improved hardware support. 3D hardware acceleration for the ATI Radeon is now included. Most video drivers now support the RENDER extension, providing anti-aliased font support to a wider range of hardware. The old XIE and PEX (Phigs) X extensions are now officially deprecated by the XFree86 team, and will be removed from a future release of Red Hat Linux"

Redhat's errata advisory RHEA-2002:010-17 should point you in the right direction.

Once you have your system registered you can update from the website directly (they have a very nice display and tracking system) or there are instructions on how to do it through up2date.

Hope this helps.

Mike D.

by protected_id

I believe the command you are looking for is "up2date -iu" (without quotation marks) this will d/l and install all packages.

You will find this and most of your questions answered simply by using the man pages. Type "man command" (again, no quotes and "command" is the command you are wanting information about).

by ryder007

I'm sorry guys I liked both your answers but I closed the question prematurely, before I could allocate the points, I'm going to repost the question and give each of you half the points sorry again.

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