WTF *Nix

Yes it seems they are rolling out more fedora releases nowadays, which Office is version 12 right now currently, so by year end I think they will be caught up with Microsoft Office version!

Anyhow, here’s your steps on upgrading using YUM on a Fedora box:

(Extra yum clean all’s can’t hurt nothing, always to be sure of everything being cleaned before always updating, I do it because I use cache and found that after one clean all they simply don’t wipe out sometimes on the first go around. Also note the # is just there pretending to be a command prompt any and all commands follow the #, just a note for the newbies)

• #yum clean all
• #yum clean all
• # yum update
• # yum clean all
• # yum clean all
• # yum update
• # yum clean all
• #yum clean all

• Good to be sure everything is cleaned!

• Pick a MIRROR that’s closest too you, I like liberty.edu because I’m pretty close there: Fedora List of Mirrors

• For i386 Boxes: # rpm -Uhv http://mirror.liberty.edu/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-10-1.noarch.rpm http://mirror.liberty.edu/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-10.0.0-1.noarch.rpm

• For x86_64 Boxes: # rpm -Uhv http://mirror.liberty.edu/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/fedora-release-10-1.noarch.rpm http://mirror.liberty.edu/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-10.0.0-1.noarch.rpm

• Good rule here to remember, as I don’t put the -y (yes switch, because I like to visually inspect everything before letting the upgrade go about.)

• After doing this, you may have to run: # yum clean all just in case to pick up everything for the changes to take effect prior to upgrading to the new Fedora 10 before running:

• # yum update

Once you get done downloading, updating all packages, reboot, watch your screen to ensure that the newest kernel is picked up and head onto and into Fedora 10. =)

If you have issues, feel free on posting here any questions, I myself can help you figure it out when I get time, or some other passerbyer maybe able to assist.

So WTF!

Just like any other upgrade that you do with Yum, this is the most easiest!

Keep up to date on their final release here:Fedora’s Sulphur FINAL Release

This is for their Preview Release Core 9

yum update

yum clean all

yum clean all (Just to be sure)

yum update (Just to be sure)

yum clean all (Just to be sure)

i386:
rpm -Uhv

http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/9-Beta/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-8.92-1.noarch.rpm

http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/9-Beta/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-8.90-1.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
rpm -Uhv

http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/9-Beta/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/fedora-release-8.92-1.noarch.rpm

http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/9-Beta/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-8.90-1.noarch.rpm
yum -y update

You may need to do some housekeeping to remove some packages to work out a few dependency issues, however mine was swift as I only build gateways and lite boxes separately for one for HTTP, one for MySQL, one for Qmail.

So remember use GOOGLE to research your ERRs, or post them in here, don’t guarantee me to keep checking every hour, someone may come along like billy boy gates or steve balmer from M$ and they may know the answer

All the love to the *nix world keep awkin on!