[CentOS] updating centOS5.3

Rudi Ahlers Rudi at SoftDux.com
Tue Oct 12 10:33:04 UTC 2010


On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Ritika Garg <ritikagarg25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have centOS5.3 installed in the system. I have never updated it but now am
> planning to update. While doing "yum update", is there any possibility that
> the update might hamper the execution of any software/application installed
> on the system? Is there anything particular to note before updating the
> system?
>
> _______________________________________________


I haven't had any problems in updating CentOS 5.3 to 5.4 or even 5.5
directly. Although I normally use yum upgrade instead of yum update,
but the process would probably be the same for both "yum update" and
"yum upgrade" in this case.

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