Exercise 9: Indiana Industrials

There are two ways you can check for updates and keep the system current: using the YaST2 tool or Red Carpet. We'll look at the YaST method first.

Start YaST and choose Software (if it is not already selected), followed by Online Update. This brings up the dialog box shown in Figure 4.13.

Figure 4.13. The Online Update options.

You can choose to manually select the patches to be applied (the default) or reload all patches from the server. If any patches are available, they are presented for you to select. Otherwise, you are notified that the system is currently up-to-date, and you can rest easy.

Novell Linux Desktop also includes the Red Carpet utility to allow you to check for updates and keep the system current. To start this utility within GNOME, from the System menu, choose Software Update. Within KDE, you choose System, Configuration, Red Carpet to arrive at the same location.

A check of the system will be done, and you will be notified if there are any patches to download. If there are no new patches, you will be notified that the system is up-to-date.