up2date, also known as the Red Hat Update Agent, is a tool used by older versions of

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, CentOS and Fedora Core that downloads and installs new software and upgrades the operating system. It functions as a front-end to the

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and adds advanced features such as automatic dependency resolution. The file specifies where up2date will search for packages.

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By default,

's up2date retrieves packages from a Red Hat Network (RHN) server, though users can add directories full of packages or even

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and yum repositories if they wish. up2date on Fedora Core defaults to retrieving packages from yum repositories. Again, other sources can be added (apart from RHN, which is Red Hat Enterprise Linux Specific). As of Fedora Core 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, up2date is no longer shipped with the distribution; yum is used instead. CentOS's up2date downloads packages from yum repositories on th
CentOS Mirror Network

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External links

up2date
at redhat.com
yum/up2date
transitioning from up2date to yum {{Red Hat Free package management systems Linux package management-related software Red Hat software

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