Replacing Gnome rpms

[Hans Scheffers]

When I try to install Ximian over Fedora I get an error saying fedora
isn't supported... How can I install Ximian again then?
II just backupped my /home and completely reinstalled fedora from
scratch...)

Grtz

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 23:40, Christophe Le Guern wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:05:50 +0000
> Matthew Wilson <matthewwilson at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> 
> > Greetings list,
> > In the Fedora release notes it mentions there is a conflict between the
> > Ximian and Redhat Gnome RPMs, and it is necessary to replace the Ximian
> > ones with Fedora's after upgrading.   However, according to rpm --info
> > all my Gnome rpms are created by Redhat.  My Gnome does seem rather
> > unstable though, it froze the system completely just now.  Which
> > packages should be replaced?
> 
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> >From http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/ :
> 
> There have been issues observed when upgrading Red Hat Linux 7.<x>, 8.0, 9 and Fedora Core 1 systems running Ximian GNOME. 
> The issue is caused by version overlap between the official Red Hat Linux RPMs (or the ones from the Fedora Project) and 
> the Ximian RPMs. This configuration is not supported. You have several choices in resolving this issue:
> 
> 1) You may remove Ximian GNOME from your system prior to upgrading to Fedora Core.
> 
> 2) You may upgrade your system, and then immediately reinstall Ximian GNOME.
> 
> 3) You may upgrade your system, and then immediately remove all remaining Ximian RPMs, replacing them 
> with the corresponding Fedora Core RPMs.
> 
> You must resolve the version overlap using one of the above choices. Failure to do so will result in an unstable GNOME configuration.
> 
> 
> Christophe
> 
> 
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