Upgrade fc7 to fc8 not possible with yum

Javier Perez pepebuho at gmail.com
Thu Jun 19 20:05:21 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 23:29 -0400, ramachandranc1 at aim.com wrote:
> > Upgrade from fc7 to fc8 is not possible by yum because 2 packages are
> > not available to update.How to overcome this problem?
>
> Simple answer:  Uninstall those packages before doing the upgrade, then
> manually re-install them afterwards.
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> [tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
> 2.6.25.4-30.fc9.i686
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Use package-cleanup --problems to uncover orphans like that and remove them
before upgrading.



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