I am using fedora 13 (2.6.33 ). Due to some reasons I cannot update the kernel nor can I upgrade fedora itself to 18 due to some legacy software I am using for business purpose. So my question is how do I update my applications to the latest versions using yum without actually updating the kernel/distro. For eg when Iyum update firefoxIt shows me the firefox version 3.x. instead of 19.0.I have the option to download the binaries from website but for some applications I manually have to resolve the dependency issue.So how do I temporarily set my source to fedora 18 source for some specific application.
yum update version issue
fedora;yum
It is very unlikely that you can run latest Firefox on that prehistoric system. And I'd strongly advise against exposing it to the Internet, there are all sort of problems with that system, that won't ever be fixed. Isolate the machine as much as possible, and start considering alternatives (operating system, better something enterprisey like CentOS; and also the application, something that hasn't been updated in that many years and can't be rebuilt is not something I'd bet my livelihood on).