Yum (Yellow dog Updater, Modified) is an automatic updater and package installer/remover for RPM systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install pac... More


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Fedora 10's D-Bus Update Causes Some Headaches and Procedural Discussions

Via Linux Weekly News comes the tale of Fedora 10's recent troubles with D-Bus. Fedora recently issued a security update for D-Bus which broke a number of applications on generic Fedora systems. One of the areas affected was PackageKit -- essentially leaving those accustomed to updating their systems with the Fedora GUI tools unable to do so in this manner.

The fix detailed by Paul Frields (issuing the command "su -c 'yum update'" in a terminal window) is straightforward, but it has the Fedora community talking about how to minimize and handle update hiccups in the future.



Checksum Error In Yum

Does anybody get this error while running yum as normal user?
I get this error when runnig from normal user and not from super-user
//var/cache/yum/updates/primary.sqlite.bz2 does not match checksum
Is this some db error? any pointers or suggestions?

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