On Tuesday 17 April 2007 02:48, Garrick Staples wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:53:54PM -0400, Benjamin Sher alleged: > > Dear friends: > > > > Just installed Centos 5. Very impressed but as a newbie I am a bit > > confused about the the role of the Software Updater vs. Add/Remove and > > Yum(ex). Which one do I use to update the installed programs, please? > > They all work with the same rpm repositories, so whichever you feel > comfortable with. Just doing 'yum update' in a root shell is probably > the simplest and quickest way to install all available updates. Dear Garrick: Thank you so much. Really appreciate the clarification. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin Sher sher07 at mindspring.com