How to for upgrading from F7 to F8 via yum?

[Will Woods]

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 10:22 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 09:07 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
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> > > Just wondering if someone was going to write a howto on how to
> > > correctly upgrade F7 to F8 via yum so that features like PulseAudio are
> > > installed correctly?
> > >
> > > When going from FC6 to F7 after the yum upgrade I remember having to do
> > > something like 'yum groupupdate "GNOME Desktop Environment"' to get a
> > > few things installed.
> > >
> > > I would prefer to use yum to upgrade my machine, but I have the feeling
> > > that if I do that some things won't be quite right.
> > 
> > Eventually, here:http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/LiveUpgrade
> > 
> > Put, basically, I do it like this:
> > 
> > 1. Read the release notes.  Do anything required pre-upgrade.
> > 2. Manually download and install fedora-release* rpms for the new version.
> > 3. yum clean all
> 
> Alternative step 4 if you're running x86_64:
> yum shell
> remove dbus.i386
> update
> run

I believe we're still tracking these gotchas on this wiki page:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
It'd be awesome if you could add something about handling dbus.

Another thing: To get PulseAudio working you'll probably need to do 'yum
groupinstall sound-and-video', followed by 'yum install
libflashsupport' (to make Flash work) and possibly some KDE stuff that I
can't think of right now.

-w
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