From the course: Complete Guide to Linux Security: Protecting Your Linux Server Environment

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Installing security updates only

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Installing security updates only

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- Let's talk about how to install security updates only. Quite often on a server, you're only going to want the security updates and not all the other updates to applications and so on. So a lot of times you'll just want security updates and this lab, Lab 13, shows how to do this. So if you want to follow along, this is Lab 13, Installing Security Updates Only. What we're going to do, we're going to show the DNF security update option in Fedora, really easy to use, but we'll also show how to install individual updates from a security perspective in Debian. So let's jump over to our Fedora system now, bring up a terminal. And if you're working as root, that's fine, but if you're working as a regular user, make sure that you have sudo powers or wheel powers, depending on which distro you're working in. In this case, we're in Fedora, so we want to make sure we have wheel powers and make sure that you're using the sudo command before anything that we do here. So it's fairly simple to…

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