upgrading redhat 8.0 to Fedora Core 1 difficulties

[Allen K. Smith]

I believe redhat has never supported over the net upgrades like this. The installer does extra magic. Try installing from the CD/DVD using an upgrade install.

If you have a requirement that over the net upgrades between releases be supported, then look at one of the debian based distros. They've supported that stuff for over a decade now.

[By supported I mean it is one of the officially sanctioned ways of moving between releases]

Good luck,
-Allen

On Thursday 23 March 2006 07:38, Noah wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I am having some difficulties upgrading redhat 8.0 to FC1.  It appears some
> libraries are not being located.  one of hte libraries is libtk.so.0 but I
> have tk loaded on the machine.  Also I rebooted and it is still claiming to be
> a redhat 8.0 machine (see below).  Is there another step I need to do?  Why
> are these libraries not present?
> 
> 
> 
> --- instructions for yum upgrade ----
> 
> http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html
> 
> ---- yum stuff and dmesg --
> 
> 
> # yum upgrade
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Finding obsoleted packages
> Resolving dependencies
> .package ical needs libtk.so.0 (not provided)
> package ical needs libtk.so.0 (not provided)
> package python2-tkinter needs libtk.so.0 (not provided)
> package python2-tkinter needs libtk.so.0 (not provided)
> package ical needs libtk.so.0 (not provided)
> package ical needs libtk.so.0 (not provided)
> package python2-tkinter needs libtk.so.0 (not provided)
> package python2-tkinter needs libtk.so.0 (not provided)
> package apt needs librpm-4.1.so (not provided)
> package apt needs librpmdb-4.1.so (not provided)
> package apt needs librpmio-4.1.so (not provided)
> package python2-tkinter needs python2 = 2.2.1-1 (not provided)
> package apt needs libelf.so.0 (not provided)
> package ical needs libtcl.so.0 (not provided)
> package ical needs libtcl.so.0 (not provided)
> package python2-tkinter needs libtcl.so.0 (not provided)
> package python2-tkinter needs libtcl.so.0 (not provided)
> package ical needs libtcl.so.0 (not provided)
> package ical needs libtcl.so.0 (not provided)
> package python2-tkinter needs libtcl.so.0 (not provided)
> package python2-tkinter needs libtcl.so.0 (not provided)
> package gq needs libcom_err.so.3 (not provided)
> package pine needs libcom_err.so.3 (not provided)
> 
> # yum info tk
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Looking in Available Packages:
> Name   : tk
> Arch   : i386
> Version: 8.3.5
> Release: 96.0.1
> Size   : 1.76 MB
> Group  : Development/Languages
> Repo   : Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
> Summary: Tk graphical toolkit for the Tcl scripting language
> Description:
>  When paired with the Tcl scripting language, Tk provides a fast and powerful
> way to create GUI applications that run on Linux as well as Windows, Unix,
> and the Macintosh.
> 
>  
> Looking in Installed Packages:
> Name   : tk
> Arch   : i386
> Version: 8.3.3
> Release: 74
> Size   : 2.58 MB
> Group  : Development/Languages
> Repo   : Locally Installed
> Summary: Tk graphical toolkit for the Tcl scripting language
> Description:
>  When paired with the Tcl scripting language, Tk provides a fast and powerful
> way to create GUI applications that run on Linux as well as Windows, Unix,
> and the Macintosh.
> 
> 
> # dmesg
> Linux version 2.4.20-28.8 (bhcompile at daffy.perf.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2
> 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)) #1 Thu Dec 18 12:24:59 EST 2003
> 
> 
> ---- snip ---
>