" Let me get this straight: Your in a graphical shell you see a red exclimation point, you click it and what happens?"
It takes me to some web site with a list of stuff that I may or may not want to update. I have no clue what they are or how to install them.
When I click the install everything option, it doesn't seem to install anything and the red exclamation point doesn't go away.
Clearly, there is some technical stuff I need to know, but the documentation is so vast and technical that I refuse to take the 6 months off from work to read it all. Consequently, my Linux box remains un-updated.
Now, you are telling me I have to run something called Yum. Maybe you can't see how totally absurd this is from a Windows user's point of view, but it gives me a good laugh every Tuesday when my Windows update runs without incident.
The other amusing part of this story is that I'm the guy in my office that people come to with technical questions. There has never been a Windows problem that I couldn't solve.
I tried using our university computer help people (about 300 individuals in a giant department) to get my WinXP shared printers to work with Linux. I spent many hours reading manuals on Samba and other utilities. Neither they nor I could make it happen. I tried several versions of Linux. I even bought the expensive Redhat box set and tried their help lines.
I gave up and bought a new laser printer for my Linux box. I also gave up on the idea that Linux is going to replace Windows on the desktop for the foreseeable future.
No Im telling you thats what is going on in the background, you should not have to run it. Can you snap a screen shot and put it somewhere I can look at it? I would be happy to help you with this if you cant find documentation..