Is there any equivalent for Software Update Service in linux?

Dears.
I am searching for equivalent for Software Update Equivalent in linux.
Can anyone guide me?

Thanks in advance,
saeid montazeri.

On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 06:10:54 -0700, saeid wrote:

> Dears.
> I am searching for equivalent for Software Update Equivalent in linux.
> Can anyone guide me?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> saeid montazeri.

Don't know right off - what does it do? Much better to ask 'is there a way
of performing XXX' in Linux rather than assuming we know what every MS
piece of software does.

saeid wrote:

> I am searching for equivalent for Software Update Equivalent in linux.
> Can anyone guide me?

I'm not sure exactly what that does,
but assuming that it installs the latest version of software,
there are programs available in Linux to do exactly that,
but the program depends on the Linux distribution.

Under Fedora Linux there is a program, yum,
which is infinitely superior and more flexible
than anything I have seen on Windows.

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In comp.os.linux.networking Timothy Murphy <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> saeid wrote:

>> I am searching for equivalent for Software Update Equivalent in linux.
>> Can anyone guide me?

> I'm not sure exactly what that does,
> but assuming that it installs the latest version of software,
> there are programs available in Linux to do exactly that,
> but the program depends on the Linux distribution.

> Under Fedora Linux there is a program, yum,
> which is infinitely superior and more flexible
> than anything I have seen on Windows.

Indeed, 'yum' rocks! It would be great if the OP could stop multi
posting and cross-post instead if he thinks it is needed...

In addition:

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Timothy Murphy wrote:
> saeid wrote:
>
>> I am searching for equivalent for Software Update Equivalent in linux.
>> Can anyone guide me?
>
> I'm not sure exactly what that does,
> but assuming that it installs the latest version of software,
> there are programs available in Linux to do exactly that,
> but the program depends on the Linux distribution.
>
> Under Fedora Linux there is a program, yum,
> which is infinitely superior and more flexible
> than anything I have seen on Windows.
>
And Mandriva has urpmi, and Debian and Ubuntu have apt-get.
Gentoo has portage.

Depends on what you are doing. What flavor do you use, for example, I
use RHEL4 and Red Hat v.8. For RHEL4 I use "up2date -u", this will only
work if your system is registered with Red Hat though. Other than that,
there are various web sites to find current rpm's for programs.

good luck...

saeid wrote:
> Dears.
> I am searching for equivalent for Software Update Equivalent in linux.
> Can anyone guide me?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> saeid montazeri.