On 02/27/2015 03:15 PM, Max Pyziur wrote:
Greetings,
I decided to begin making the leap from F18 to F21. My reluctance in
upgrading with each new release was due to all of the problems that
were reported with upgrades, and not wanting to go through a
dependency upgrade ordeal.
Now with F18 firmly EOL'd and enough packages showing their age and
demanding upgrades, I've begun making the switch.
I have three machines that run Fedora: two laptops, one of which is an
i686 and the other a dual-core, and a desktop.
I've started w/ the i686, the least used, and essentially a backup.
The strategy is to simply leave the /home partition alone, and to do a
fresh install, reformating the other partitions. (I used the Fedora 21
Workstation Live i686 disc). Having a list of those RPMs that were
installed under F18, I'll work my way back to something that I was
using before.
I did that, but when the machine responded and rebooted, and then I
tried to login through the GUI to a gnome desktop, the result was
unusable.
No problem: <ctrl+alt>+F2 and I have a character-based screen, and I
can log in.
From there, I did a
yum groupinstall "Xfce Desktop"
and then rebooted, selected Xfce as my desktop, login, and I have the
beginnings of a functioning gui-based system.
However, my Gnome problem remains: there is no provision in F21-i686
for a
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop" so that I have a functioning Gnome or
Gnome-Classic desktop (there is one for "MATE Desktop," btw).
Would anyone have advice on how to install all of the remaining
necessary pieces for a functioning F21 i686 Gnome Desktop?
Much thanks,
Max Pyziur
pyz@xxxxxxxxx
Personally, I had absolutely no problems leaping from f18 to f20 using
fedup.
It worked flawlessly.
That is not to sat that some f18 packages did not have updates in f21.
That is why I still have some f18 packages, which still work without any
problems.
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