FC 5 > FC6 via YUM update

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Wed Oct 25 10:43:34 UTC 2006


Joe Klemmer wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 
>>> Is it possible to upgrade via YUM to FC6 from FC5?
>>
>> In theory, it should work, but its not a 'supported' upgrade method.
>> You need to manually upgrade the fedora-release RPM, and then you
>> should be able to just run 'yum update'.
>>
>> I've done it several times successfully upgrading from FC4 to FC5.  I
>> plan to try again for FC6.

The only problem that I had was with a package called linphone. I never 
used it, so I removed it. The upgrade was successful from devel to FC6. 
FC5 to FC6 may take some time to resolve and proceed onto the upgrade of 
the installation.

Jim

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