Using Red Hat Network With Red Hat Linux 6.2 - Red Hat NETWORK ENTERPRISE - USER REFERENCE GUIDE 1.1.1 User Reference Manual

Using Red Hat Network with Red Hat Linux 6.2

Red Hat Linux 6.2 shipped with a program named Red Hat Update Agent (
version of the Red Hat Update Agent can not be used to connect to Red Hat Network to receive
package updates. You need a new version of the Red Hat Update Agent and the Red Hat Network
Registration Client to use Red Hat Network on a Red Hat Linux 6.2 system.
To download and install these programs, use the following steps:
1. In a shell prompt, log in as root and execute the command
new directory in which to download the packages.
2. In the same shell prompt, execute the command
tory.
3. Go to http://rhn.redhat.com/help/rh62.pxt and download the necessary packages.
4. Go back to the shell prompt in the
the command
works with Red Hat Network. The Red Hat Network Registration Client will also be installed
with this command along with other packages your system needs to run the Red Hat Network
programs.
5. After they are installed, run the Red Hat Network Registration Client (
register your system. See Chapter 2 for details.
6. Login to your account at http://rhn.redhat.com to configure your preferences and to configure
which systems you want to entitle.
to upgrade the existing Red Hat Update Agent to the version that
rpm -Uvh *
cd rhnpackages
directory (you must still be root) and execute
rhnpackages
Chapter 8.
). However, this
up2date
mkdir rhnpackages
to change to the new direc-
rhn_register
to create a
) to