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Having problems with updates and updating BIND

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Hi guys, I'm having 2 issues updating my Fedora 17 server. 1. The Software Updates app is broken and won't update anything. I connect to my headless server through a VNC session. When I try to run Software Updates, it shows me 80+ updates, I click Install, then it brings up another list of things it needs to install for dependencies, I click Install, and then I get a message: Failed to process request. Did not get authentication. So, then I go to a terminal, su to root, run a yum update, and then it sorta works, except for problem #2 (which I was able to get around using the --skip-brok (HowTos)

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Submitted by leex on 01/11/2013

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I upgraded from Fedora 15 to 17 with mostly no problems and it is working fine.

However, every now and again I get a notification that "Important software updates are available". When I click on the button to install them, it displays the list of updates and I can click "Install Updates".

I have 11.10 installed and have not had any problems updating until now.

I get this message when I run Update Manager: 55 updates are ready to install.

Hello, I just installed Fedora 17 a few days a go, and today I found out I have 482 updates, 300 something MB.. wow, that is a lot of bugs / updates.

Anway, I tried updating from Apper but it takes a long time to download and when I tried RPM / command line the other day it was much faster.

My questions are:

1. Is it normal to have so many updates?

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I'm a bit afraid of breaking my machine because I've heard some people have had that problem after updating. How safe is it to just let update manager install all available updates? I currently have 300+ updates waiting and I've just been going through them and installing the ones that I know what they do.

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Hello, I'm Spanish, I do not speak good English, I will try to explain the problem:

I have ubuntu 11.10 and now has left me the following error in the Update Manager, you can install all updates:

I tried to go to System Settings ----> Software Sources ---> updates, to see how I have configured the updates and I think I have the right ...

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When I log into my web server via SSH I see the information:

88 packages can be updated. 80 updates are security updates

I tried apt-get update then apt-get upgrade but each time I log in I still see the message about updates. How do I install them?

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I am beginning to use Ubuntu 12.02, and I have problems with the Update Manager and the software center (I guess something must be wrong with my repository list...).

The update Manager freezes when I click on install updates (and gives me lots of suggestions even though I regularly run apt-get upgrade and apt-get update), and the software center just won't start (it just shows a g

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