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Patch Installation in Linux

Installing Updates in Linux

There's little to consider with Linux as compared to Windows. The readme file referenced under Linux says the following:

To install apt on Redhat 9, do

 sh install

This will install apt-get, and put configuration files and the script runapt in /etc/apt. It will install a cron job to be run weekly, and will modify /etc/rc.d/rc.local so as to run it on bootup.

To run the update procedure manually, do

/etc/apt/runapt

Log output is written to /var/log/apt.log.

Further information about apt for Redhat can be found at: http://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/

The install script referenced in the readme file is as follows:

#!/bin/sh
rpm -Uvh apt-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.i386.rpm
cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.save
cp sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list
cp runapt /etc/apt/runapt
cp /etc/crontab /etc/crontab.save
cat crontab.line >>/etc/crontab
cp /etc/rc.d/rc.local /etc/rc.d/rc.local.save
cat rc.local.line >>/etc/rc.d/rc.local

See Automatic Security Patches for Windows for the procedure required to install patches under Windows.

Last updated Monday, 07-Jan-2008 09:32:28 MST, by John Luiten
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