Alastair McKinley wrote: >> > I have currently FC4 on my system, >> > How do I upgrade it to FC5 >> INSTALL yum-2.6.1-0.fc5, which you can download from the net, and then >> yum upgrade > I am currently thinking about upgrading from FC4 - FC5 on my thinkpad T43. > I like the sound of the yum upgrade option. Are there any potential > pitfalls one should know about with particular applications for instance? > Has anyone any positive/negative experience of this? (1) Is it sufficient to install this particular version of yum? Basically, as I understand it, you have to change /etc/fedora-release - is that included in this version of yum ? I thought one had to download and install fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm and then you could run "yum update". (2) This does have definite disadvantages - you have to download hundreds of packages, and if there is some conflict it will be hours before you find out. (3) The alternative is to get the fedora-5 CDs or DVD and choose the upgrade option. This is much simpler, and I would certainly try it first. You can always try the other method if it doesn't work. [That is what I did on one machine.] -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
