I'm planning to go to Fedora Core 6 from Redhat 9 since the libraries is outdated with mysql 5.2 and php 5.

I plan on wiping out everything and installing on clean partition. Is there another way to run mysql and php without upgrading..

I want to avoid the endlessly incompatible library problems.

If you wish to remain using the rpm package manager then have a few ideas.

One download the src.rpm of the package you need and build an rpm from it based on your current installed rpm files. You may have to edit the spec file for the build to change what is required as far a version. But here is where you need to check with the docs from the program to see what the minimum requirements are before modifing the spec file.

Check over at http://rpm.pbone.net to see if there are newer rpm versions of the one you have installed matching the distro version. Here is where you can 90percent of the time get the src.rpm of the file.

Other option is to install the source files. If they do not build due to missing libriaries or outdated versions of existing installed apps then here is where other apps need to be upgraded.

Both are do able but does take time and the order some files need to be built.

Brian

I suggest that you just upgrade, unless you have a definite reason to continue using RH9.

RH9 is that outdated now, that whatever you install will have library conflicts due to the outdated libraries.

--Ian

Thanks for the information. I'm downloading the last disk of Fedora 6.

Really, it's worth it. I had Red Hat 9 as well, and at one point was on fedoralegacy.org checking out the possibility of using yum to upgrade from RH9.

I decided against it, first copied over all my data onto a flash drive, and then clean installed core 6 onto a fresh formatted HDD (where RH9 had been). Well worth it. No more stuff saying it needs this or that in order to work.