[real] Problems upgrading from RH8 to FC1 using yum

[Ben Steeves]

On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 19:07, John Rumball wrote:

> Is there some other version of Evolution besides the one form Ximian? 
> Should I remove/uninstall Ximian Evolution before attempting another
> upgrade to FC1?  I'm not sure what to do at this point.

The first thing to do is to remove all traces of Ximian RPMs from your
system ("rpm -qa | grep -i ximian") will get you a list.  

To handle the dependency issues, make a note of any packages that
require the Ximian RPMs (e.g., when package A-Ximian says it needs
package B-Ximian) -- remove all the Ximian packages (ignoring the
dependencies that would prevent removal, "rpm -e --nodeps {package
name}", then replace the required packages with the "clean" (i.e.,
distribution supplied) packages.  

Once that's done, you can safely upgrade to FC1.  I had to do this when
upgrading from RH8.  It should be fairly painless if you're careful to
replace all necessary packages.
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