Patching your Linux machine

• SUSE Linux
• Red Hat Linux
• Fedora Linux
• Gentoo Linux
• Mandrake Linux

This document contains links to properly patching various Linux distributions.

SUSE Linux

Configuring SUSE Linux for automatic updates

Red Hat Linux

Updating Red Hat 7.2 with the latest patches

Updating Red Hat 9 with the latest patches

Fedora Linux

Updating Red Hat Fedora with the latest patches

Gentoo Linux

emerge -uD world
etc-update

Mandrake Linux

You must have a working X server or be on console to run the update. First, connect to the machine with X forwarding enabled, and then run MandrakeUpdate.

ssh -X mandrakebox.chem.indiana.edu
MandrakeUpdate