Access the Mandriva Online web administration interface by right-clicking on the Mandriva Online applet on the panel to activate your Mandriva Online account. Choose and once you're on the website, provide your Mandriva Online email address and password.
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Once you activate a host you can access its management interface by clicking on the details icon.
The available actions differ slightly according to whether your machine's packages are up-to-date or not, but basically here are the actions you can perform:
Change the mail-sending status to yes (by clicking on the link) to receive an email when updates are available.
Change the auto-update status to yes (by clicking on the link) to have updates for your machine automatically installed by the applet (see Seção 3, “Mandriva Online Applet”) which regularly connects to the Internet to check for such updates.
Click on the See link by the Installed packages or Errata(s) label.
You can update your machine manually from the applet (see Seção 3, “Mandriva Online Applet”); from the Web interface, you can check which updates are available and choose which ones to install.
You must now select the packages to be updated. You can either , or choose them one by one by clicking on the See link in the Outdated packages field.
Click on
the advisory link (of the MDKA-year:number
or MDKSA-year:number
forms) to obtain details
about that update. Check the box for each package you want to be
updated on your machine. When this is done, click on
.
Once updates are selected, they are automatically installed next time the applet connects to the Mandriva Online server, which occurs several times a day.