Timothy Murphy wrote: > I read your blog, and I think you were incredibly lucky that your > method - installing all rpm's in various repositories with "rpm -Uvh > *.rpm" - actually worked. Oh, believe me, I know just how lucky I was. > I wonder if you ran "yum update" on your FC-4 system before you > started? Yep. > I upgraded from FC-4 to FC-5 by installing > fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm and then running "yum update". As I said, that's exactly what I did. It's just that the yum upgrade was trashed in the middle due to a power blip. Luck had it that I had enough of the updated rpm files on the system to make the "rpm -Uvh" work. Dumb luck is often the savior of the insane. Joe
