Yes it did,thanks you are a genius! Henry
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Sawrub <luckysharm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/11/2010 08:47 PM, Henry Wyatt wrote: > > How do I become superuser "root" ? > > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwe...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:20:20 -0400, Henry wrote: >> >> > Just installed Fedora 12, much better than other operating systems. I >> am >> > new to this and have the following problem. I cannot update software, >> > update fails, I will send error mesage at next attempt to update. >> >> Might be an idea to open a terminal, become superuser "root", and >> run: yum update yum\* PackageKit\* >> -- >> users mailing list >> users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> > > > > -- > Henry E Wyatt Jr > > Right at the top left corner of the screen is the dropdown menu listing > Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal. > Once the Terminal is up and running at the prompt type in > $ su - > the system will ask for the ROOT [super] user password. Once that is typed > and submitted the prompt will change to #, and will be ready for accepting > commands allowed for super user ,and then you can run > # yum update yum > or simply the following command as yours is a fresh install. > # yum update > > Hope this helps. > > > > -- > Saurabh Sharma > Linux user number: 490644http://sawrub-blog.blogspot.com/ > Open your doors.......It's time to look beyond Windows > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > -- Henry E Wyatt Jr
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