Re: Upgrade from FC 7 to FC 8

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On Wednesday 09 January 2008 02:08:04 pm James Gallagher wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to upgrade from FC 7 to FC 8 and (while the previous
> updates have all gone smoothly) this just hangs. The update gets to
> the point where it says it's looking at the dependency issues and and
> the progress bar gets about 1/3 of the way across the dialog box and
> just stops. I let it sit for about three hours with no signs of life.
>
> Any clue about a likely problem? Ways around this _besides_ doing a
> fresh install?

Hi James,

You have also the *yum* option to doing the upgrade.

I have done sucessfully this type of upgrade (remotely) to one of my Fedora 
servers located in VA (USA), since version FC1 up to the actual F8.

1. You need to be sure that you have the current available packages for your 
actual Fedora box:

  # yum update

2. You need to install the F8 version of the 'fedora-release' 
and 'fedora-release-notes' packages:

  # rpm -Uvh 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm  
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3.noarch.rpm

 ( the above in a single command line)

3. Clean all the yum buffers, and do the update:
  # yum clean all
  # yum update

3.5 Alternatively, you can update only the kernel, and after the update and 
the computer is restarted ok with the new kernel, then do the full update.

  # yum update kernel


It is possible that you get some unresolved dependencies, then you need to 
remove the offending packages and retry the update, after the update is done 
you can re-install those packages removed.


best of luck.

Teo Fonrouge

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