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

[senthil_kumar_1]

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.

[Matti_Kurkela]

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

[Maaz]

for SLES 10

zypper update

rug list-updates

Regards
Maaz

[senthil_kumar_1]

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.

[senthil_kumar_1]

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?

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

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

[dirk dierickx]

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

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

[Maaz]

>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

[Sivakumar MJ._1]

Check this link Senthil..

http://en.opensuse.org/Software_Management_Command_Line_Comparison