Comments on: Upgrading from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 with yum

By: erik aronesty

erik aronesty — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:45:20 +0000

# mirror that works as of 2010-02-26
rpm -Uhv ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-9-2.noarch.rpm ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-9.0.0-1.noarch.rpm

By: carson

carson — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:43:01 +0000

You may need to remove one of those packages before trying to update. I would guess that you have a special xfdesktop package installed that you may be able to remove without too much pain and then re-install after the upgrade. Just make sure to back up any configuration.

By: Ryan Chapman

Ryan Chapman — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:01:49 +0000

when i do 'yum update' i get this:

Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/share/desktop-directories/Internet.directory from install of gnome-menus-2.20.1-1.fc8 conflicts with file from package xfdesktop-acer-lp-1652.mcs_patched
file /usr/share/desktop-directories/Settings.directory from install of gnome-menus-2.20.1-1.fc8 conflicts with file from package xfdesktop-acer-lp-1652.mcs_patched

Error Summary

any ideas guys?

By: Chris Northwood

Chris Northwood — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:32:35 +0000

SToGE: I've found that before the yum -y update, I needed to "yum update fedora-release" in order to get the new signing key and the -newkey repositories.

By: SToGE

SToGE — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:31:13 +0000

Your instructions seem to be very helpful thus far. I did run into an issue though and was wondering if someone can give me some guidance.

I was able to successfully run through steps 1-5 and got to step 6 where I did 'yum -y update' using the FC9 repos. My problem is that I got a TON of missing dependencies. Should I go through line by line and 'yum remove' each package and reinstall them again after getting to FC9 or is there a better solution? I am talking about close to 100 missing dependencies or so.

Thanks for your help!

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:46:13 +0000

I've used your instructions before and they always worked out great! Thanks! Usually I use Debian, but I'm having trouble with the Apache2 server. I used to run 2 har drives one with fedora and the other with debian, but I changed the fedora to win xp and now I am re installing fedora on another machine, because I know more about running apache in fedora. Thanks again!

By: Upgrading from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 with yum @ IONCANNON

Upgrading from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 with yum @ IONCANNON — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:00:13 +0000

[...] once again it is time to upgrade. The upgrade from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 is almost exactly like the upgrade from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9. Here are the steps you need to do the upgrade from Fedora 9 to Fedora [...]

By: Vladimir Pshenkin

Vladimir Pshenkin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:58:49 +0000

Thanx, Daniel!

After a couple of hours truing to update F8 to F9 on remote host, I try your solution and everythig works.

Right sequece to update x86_64:

yum update
yum clean all

rpm -Uhv http://FAVORITE.MIRROR/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/fedora-release-9-2.noarch.rpm http://FAVORITE.MIRROR/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-9.0.0-1.noarch.rpm

yum clean all

yum update fedora-release

By: Daniel Morante

Daniel Morante — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:06:07 +0000

I found that the following:

yum update fedora-release

Helps with missing dependencies

By: Raymond Dijkxhoorn

Raymond Dijkxhoorn — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:29:04 +0000

Hi!

For the upgrade you need the newkey stuff also.

rpm -Uhv ftp://ftp.quicknet.nl/pub/Linux/download.fedora.redhat.com/updates/9/i386/fedora-release-9-5.transition.noarch.rpm

Bye,
Raymond.