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Do I Need Updates?The market for open source software is very active. If you review sites such as Freshmeat or SourceForge.net you will find numerous daily announcements. This does not include open source software that does not participate with these sites. Many open source applications are included with Mandriva are updates for security and bug fixes. Applications that you select that are not included with Mandriva will need to be separately updated, such as Compiere or SugarCRM . One of the differences between the Mandriva distributions for enterprises and individuals is the supported life. The supported life of Mandriva software products can be found here. Mandriva products for individuals have a supported life for updates of 12-18 months. Mandriva products for the enterprise have a five year supported life. Mandriva is very proud of its update system, and the updates that it provides for the the operating system and applications. Mandriva conducts many tests before releasing a new version. We try very hard to find all bugs. With that as the goal, we identify most bugs for the Mandriva software for individuals, but it is extremely difficult to verify thousands of software applications on a myriad of different hardware configurations. Mandriva consumer and enterprise software have many tools to assist you with the updates in the Mandriva Control Center. If you have any questions concerning security updates, please make sure that your product is supported by Mandriva on Mandriva's product support lifetime page. If you are using a product that is no longer supported for updates, you will need to find resources to make sure that these packages are appropriately patched for vulnerabilities. Updating Your Mandriva SystemsUpdates are offered in several convenient ways. As a member of the Club, you may download software, and and can obtain updates from Mandriva, or through the public mirrors that Mandriva has constructed with its partners.
An ISO is a single image, that when burned is converted to a standard CD or DVD that can be used for installation. If you download a DVD or CD ISO image, you need to verify that the download is complete, and that you did receive all of the download that you did receive. To insure that your download is correct, there is a file that ends with md5. You will need to download the file 'MD5SUM' (or 'md5sum'(s)) in the same directory. If you are using a Linux computer, and are at the command line, you can launch the following command: md5sum .iso In the directory where you downloaded the ISO. If you are using a system with Microsoft Windows, you will need to download the file md5sum.exe , and copy it to a directory. Next open a command window in method line order and type: md5sum -b .iso The validation of the MD5SUM will take several minutes depending on your hardware configuration. Take the MD5SUM result and compare it to the number contained in the file ending with .md5. If the numbers are identical, your download was accurate. If the nubmers are different, then your download file is corrupt and may introduce serious errors. 1.3 Ways To Perform An Installation Or Update Currently, Mandriva offers these installation methods or of update:
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Update Or Fresh Installation?Well that depends a little bit. If your data is all on seperated partitions from the Mandriva installation partition, I would do the following:
3. Check for all the applications that you regularly use and that might not be present in the standard Mandriva install. Write them down. 4. Do a fresh install of 2006 and overwrite only root (/). Make sure that the other partitions refer again to the correct mount point e.g. /home). Make sure as well to set up the same users again with the same user name but certainly as well with the same UID (set it manually, overwriting what Mandriva proposes). That will ensure that the users wil have access again to all their files and stuff. 5. After the installation finished, setup your urpmi sources (using http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/) 6. Install all software that did not get installed by the Mandriva defaults (better to do that only now, with PLF sources set up, then during installation). 7. Test everything and where necessary reconfigure. Depending on the amount of changes between the versions, more or less configurations will be kept. Installing this way makes sure that your installation is completely clean. You need to take care though to set the correct mount points and UIDs, or you will have problems (which can proably be solved, but which you would want to avoid anyhow). In installing a new version of Mandriva, you can install as a new system, or you can upgrade your existing Mandriva system. If you have separate partitions for your operating system and user data, you should find it easy to install the operating system as a new installation. If you have only one partition, you may wish to use the update functionality provided by Mandriva. Before installing, please make an backup of all data.
3. After the installation concludes, you will need to set an update source. Go to the Mandriva Control Center, and click updates to select an update mirror. 4. Test your critical applications. Installing this way is easier, but might give a less stable result. Problems may arise particularly if you use software that is not supported and tested with Mandriva. If you find that your software is not compatible with a new Mandriva release, you may wish to consider the Mandriva Corporate Desktop which is supported for five years. To replace your Mandriva system, you have two possibilities: an update 'reelle' that installera the new versions one top of the old software or a new installation after has backup of customizations. Although an update 'real' be quicker to realize and does not ask almost any work, the second method presents several major advantages:
How To Update By Installing AnewWhile being the better alternative - in my opinion -, doing an update by installing anew means a lot of work:
find /etc -mtime -60 -type f -print > changed.txt as 'root'. This will give you a list of files ('changed.txt') in '/etc' which have been changed (or installed) during the last 60 days. You might need to adjust the -mtime mkdir ~/backup find /etc -mtime -60 -type f -exec cp {} ~/backup ; as 'root'. Repeat this for your own, for root's and for any other user's home directory.
diff -y ––width 80 ––suppress-common-lines {your backup file} {appropriate new config file}
If there are, apply your customizations to the new config file rather than overwriting it with the old one.
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