yum upgrade FC5->FC6 issues

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Thu Oct 26 22:18:21 UTC 2006


Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 10/25/06, Paul Lemmons <paul.lemmons at tmcaz.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I am stepping out this time and trying to do the upgrade from FC5 to FC6
>> using yum upgrade and and having some minor (I hope) issues.
>>
>>  I have:
>>  rpm -Uhv \
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-6-4.noarch.rpm 
>>
>> \
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-notes-6-3.noarch.rpm 
>>
>>
>> And
>>
>>  rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
>>  To set the environment. When I run yum upgrade I get the following
>> dependency errors:
>>
>>  Error: Missing Dependency: libsepol - 1.12.27-1 is needed by package
>> libsepol-devel

>>  Error: Missing Dependency: libttf.so.2 is needed by package VFlib2

> Thos dependencies seem wonky.  The versions are really really old.
> Was this system previously upgraded from something older than FC5?
> Had you kept FC5 up to date prior to this upgrade attempt?
> 

My system where I also ran into this problem was originally installed on 
October 2004 and updated regularly all the way to yesterday before the 
upgrade.

Jim

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