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Want to know the latest version of all packages installed in linux

senthil_kumar_1 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:10:21 GMT

Hi All,

I am using Suse 9, 10 (sels) and Redhat 4, 5 (rhel).

I can view the all installed packages by running "rpm -qa".

But what i need is i want to know the latest version available for each packages installed in Suse and Redhat.

Re: Want to know the latest version of all packages installed in linux

Matti_Kurkela — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:37:53 GMT

In general:
Start the on-line update tool for your Linux distribution. It will display the available updates, i.e. the packages you *don't* have at the latest version. Anything it does not display *is* currently up to date.

There is usually an option that will just display the packages that would need updating.

For RHEL 4:
up2date -u --dry-run

For RHEL 5:
yum check-update

I'm not too familiar with SuSE/SLES, but I know that the online update functionality in them is likely to be found within the "yast2" universal administration tool.

MK

Re: Want to know the latest version of all packages installed in linux

Maaz — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:18:12 GMT

for SLES 10

zypper update

rug list-updates

Regards
Maaz

Re: Want to know the latest version of all packages installed in linux

senthil_kumar_1 — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:00:25 GMT

Hi Maaz,

I am getting following output when ran above commands in SUSE 10.

suse10tst:~ # rug list-updates
Waking up ZMD...Done
No updates are available.

suse10tst:~ # zypper update
Restoring system sources...
Parsing metadata for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2...
Parsing RPM database...
Summary:
Nothing to do.

So as per above ouptut, is my suse server up-to-date?

or is there any other problem.

Re: Want to know the latest version of all packages installed in linux

senthil_kumar_1 — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:10:31 GMT

Hi Matti Kurkela,

When i entered the command in redhat i am getting "Red Hat Network Registration" Screen.

Where it is asking to enter the username / password and email address,

what is this?

Re: Want to know the latest version of all packages installed in linux

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:23:40 GMT

Shalom,

When i entered the command in redhat i am getting "Red Hat Network Registration" Screen.

Where it is asking to enter the username / password and email address,

what is this?

This is a prompt from Red Hat Network to Register your system.

Red Hat's License agreement requires you to have paid support arrangements for every RH system you have installed.

SEP

Re: Want to know the latest version of all packages installed in linux

dirk dierickx — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:04:53 GMT

for RH5, take a look at this knowledge base article;

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-10022?sc_cid=70160000000Hv6dAAC

Re: Want to know the latest version of all packages installed in linux

Maaz — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:55:21 GMT

>So as per above ouptut, is my suse server up-to-date?
>or is there any other problem.

"rug list-updates" and/or "zypper update" will check the updates from the "Installation Sources" or "Software repositories" you have configured. By default the only "Installation Source/Repository" is the media from which you have installed the OS(SLE).

My guess is that you haven't configured the online "Installation Sources/Repositories" to your system, thats why "rug list-updates" and "zypper update" reports you "No updates are available". and "Nothing to do".

you should first register your machine with Novell, to get online updates.

Regards
Maaz

Re: Want to know the latest version of all packages installed in linux

Sivakumar MJ._1 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:24:32 GMT

Check this link Senthil..

http://en.opensuse.org/Software_Management_Command_Line_Comparison