Hello all,

I recently upgraded a red hat 8 machine to fedora core 3. The upgrade went well, no issues at all using the graphical upgrade wizard. Rebooted and no problems, all services seem to be running correctly. I tried to run "up2date -u" and it will not work. I started out with a few dependency errors, but managed to resolve them all. I ran the up2date command again and now I'm getting hundreds of file "x" conflicts with file "y" error messages, many dealing with kde. I'm not sure where to go from here. I'd like to not have to totally reinstall everything if possible....

my background:

I'm not totally new to linux, but I am as far as "administration" is concerned. I was primarily a web/db developer and now I'm doing a little system administration. With that being said, any I should be able to understand most help/suggestions.

I will do my best to provide any details required to help resolve this.

Thanks in advance!

A lot of people hate up2date with a passion - too many bugs, too slow, etc. Those people head right over to the refuge of apt-get and synaptic to solve their problems...I would recommend going with that option for you.

First install apt-get (you might even be able to get it through yum with "yum install apt-get" as root). Then grab Synaptic (http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/) as a graphical frontend to apt if you want. You will then be able to grab all of the latest RPMs and install them without getting into nitty-gritty dependency issues (all handled by apt).

I know theoretically that up2date is supposed to handle the dependencies, but things still don't work smoothly with it. I have been listening to many users who peg it as a program that needs major work...I agree. For managing packages on a red hat system, I don't think it gets much better than the combination of rpm with apt-get (and of course, its graphical front end synaptic).

I will look into apt-get. Thanks!