Upgrade without CD/Floppy?

[Devon Harding]

Getting alot of 'this is not available' after Missing Dependency:

Error: Package tomcat needs commons-beanutils >= 1.6.1-13, this is not
available.
Error: Package tomcat needs commons-collections >= 2.1-12, this is not
available.
Error: Package servletapi needs libgcj34 >= 3.4.0-1, this is not available.
Error: Package tomcat needs jaf >= 20030319-4, this is not available.
Error: Package php-pear needs php = 4.3.11-2.8, this is not available.
Error: Package tomcat-libs needs lib-org-apache-tools-ant-1.5.2.so, this is
not available.

Alot more than this...

On 4/7/06, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've done yum upgrades on 3 different systems. All ended up fine.
>
> 1. Go to RPMS for FC5 and look for the rpm fedora-release. Install
> that manually.
>
> 2. Run
>
> yum update yum
>
> to make sure you have the newest yum.
>
> 3. Run
>
> yum update
>
> That will take about 30 minutes to download a list of all packages and
> their interdependency information, then it will ask you if it is OK to
> proceed. If have seen it
> go faster if run during the middle of the night on a 100baseT
> ethernet, while a "cable modem" system took longer than 30 minutes.
>
> If it can find updates for all of your RPMs without breaking any
> dependencies, it will ask permission to start downloading and
> installing.
>
> It will probably find some RPMs in your system that it does not
> recognize.  If that happens, the yum program will exit, but it will
> tell you which RPMS you currently have that it can't manage.  So go
> ahead and remove the trouble makers manually, and run yum update
> again.  As soon as it is able to square out all update dependencies,
> the download and install will take about 2 or 3 hours.
>
> I promise this has worked on 3 different systems for me.
>
> >
> > On 4/7/06, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
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> > > Devon Harding wrote:
> > > > I have a FC3 system that cannot boot from CD or floppy.  Is it
> > > > possible to upgrade to FC5 without a CD or Floppy?  Yum?
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