Nicolae Ghimbovschi wrote:
Hello, I'm trying to upgrade my F7 -> F8 using yum.I'm following the instructions from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq ,but they seem not to work for my case. Bellow is the listing of the problem:rpm -Uvh http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm <http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm> http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3.noarch.rpm <http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3.noarch.rpm>Retrieving http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm <http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm> Retrieving http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3.noarch.rpm <http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3.noarch.rpm>error: Failed dependencies:fedora-release = 7 is needed by (installed) fedoramd-release-7-4.tib_fc7.noarch#rpm -qi fedora-release
What is the problem ?
You have installed a third party package called fedoramd-release-7-4.tib_fc7.noarch which has a dependency on the older fedora-release package that you are trying to update. Removing that third party package or pointing it to the equivalent Fedora 8 sources should help.
Rahul
