On 3/24/06, Ingo Schaefer <ingo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Ric, > Am Donnerstag, den 23.03.2006, 08:21 -0800 schrieb Rickey Moore: > > > Could you give us a mini-howto?? Thanx! Ric > > A german one is available in the Wiki of the BraLUG > http://www.bralug2.de/wiki/index.php?title=Fedora_Core_Upgrade_mit_yum > > My mini-howto could be extracted from two of my mails here, I will do it > for you: > > remove some packages first: > > # yum remove hpoj perl-RPM2 lvm2-cluster iiimf-le-sun-thai iiimf-qt > > remove any kernel older than 2.6.14 > > Grab file fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm > from any mirror near you. > > Install it: > # rpm -Uhv fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm > > Check the messages if rpm has created .rpmnew files (if you have > modified the old ones) > > Optional: open fedora-core.repo and add "-redirect" (without quotation > marks) to the URL of the mirrorlist > > # yum upgrade > > check if everything looks okay and then > > # reboot > (and pray if you want) > > Regards, > Ingo > PS: see also > http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html > I also upgraded from FC4 and found a dep. error at first before upgrading the yum. So Please remember to upgrade the yum after u installed the fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm
