Upgrading FC4

koobi · 06-25-2007, 11:07 PM

Hi,
I'm new to Fedora. I wanted to upgrade my FC4 to the latest. I tried to upgrade to FC5 first but this is what I got:

Code:

$ sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm 
Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        fedora-release = 4 is needed by (installed) yum-fedorafaq-4-2006.02.03.noarch

Any idea how I could resolve this dependency?

b0uncer · 06-26-2007, 02:33 AM

"yum-fedorafaq" doesn't sound critical, if you really want to do a software upgrade from the web, just force the installation of the new package (--force switch, or -f or something). You'll need to do it anyway if I'm right.

A friendly advice: download the new discs, burn them and upgrade from them, or better yet: do a clean install, formatting your root partition / (only if you have a separate /home or can backup your stuff). You'll get it easier done, and hopefully avoid trouble. Software upgrade usually breaks something. If you can backup your /home or have a separate /home which you don't format during the install, your user settings should stay intact, so no actual reason to download and install from the web. Also if you first burn and check the discs, you'll know you don't end up in a situation where the upgrade is cut off by a connection going down, causing major problems.

b0uncer · 06-26-2007, 02:36 AM

*sorry* it seems the browser did it again (freeze, then send the post twice).

koobi · 06-26-2007, 02:49 AM

I do have a seperate /home partition:

Code:

$ df -Th
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7     ext3    996M  220M  725M  24% /
/dev/hda1     ext3    996M   41M  904M   5% /boot
/dev/shm     tmpfs    252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda5     ext3    3.0G  105M  2.7G   4% /home
/dev/hda8     ext3    1.1G   36M  974M   4% /tmp
/dev/hda2     ext3    7.8G  6.4G  974M  88% /usr
/dev/hda3     ext3    3.0G  258M  2.6G  10% /var

I would actually have to format everything except the /home folder right? Since /usr especially might have some files not compatible with FC7