Howto, Live Upgrade to Fedora 8
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:08 am
I was compelled to upgrade my T42 Thinkpad to F8ish today (F8 not having really been released yet). I went the lazy-man route and did an in-place FC6-to-F8 Live Upgrade over the network with yum. It didn't take very long and I was able to use mail (thunderbird) and web (firefox) throughout the entire process. Earlier today somebody asked me for my notes. It's actually very simple...
1. Manually upgrade the fedora-release and fedora-release-notes
packages like so:
$ rpm -hUv \
http:// [YOUR FAVORITE MIRROR]/fedora-release-7.92-1.noarch.rpm \
http:// [YOUR FAVORITE MIRROR]/fedora-release-notes-7.92-2.noarch.rpm
2. Disable all third-party repositories in /etc/yum.repos.d.
3. Remove third-party packages for which there is no new repo. The
upgrade will fail due to broken dependencies otherwise.
4. $ yum update
5. Now your system has updated versions of all of your previously
installed packages. In order to pick up new packages from the
groups you care about, you'll want to do something like so:
$ yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment" \
"Development Tools" "Server Configuration Tools" \
"Hardware Support" "Sound and Video" \
"Graphical Internet" "Fonts" \
"Games and Entertainment" "Printing Software" \
"Administration Tools" "Office/Productivity" "System Tools"
6. Reboot.
1. Manually upgrade the fedora-release and fedora-release-notes
packages like so:
$ rpm -hUv \
http:// [YOUR FAVORITE MIRROR]/fedora-release-7.92-1.noarch.rpm \
http:// [YOUR FAVORITE MIRROR]/fedora-release-notes-7.92-2.noarch.rpm
2. Disable all third-party repositories in /etc/yum.repos.d.
3. Remove third-party packages for which there is no new repo. The
upgrade will fail due to broken dependencies otherwise.
4. $ yum update
5. Now your system has updated versions of all of your previously
installed packages. In order to pick up new packages from the
groups you care about, you'll want to do something like so:
$ yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment" \
"Development Tools" "Server Configuration Tools" \
"Hardware Support" "Sound and Video" \
"Graphical Internet" "Fonts" \
"Games and Entertainment" "Printing Software" \
"Administration Tools" "Office/Productivity" "System Tools"
6. Reboot.
cheersespecial thanks to Anthony Green