I recently upgraded a bunch of FC4 (a few FC3) installs to FC5 using yum. It has been a long time since I've tried doing an OS upgrade like this because it used to be pretty painful. I was surprised at how easy it is to do now. There are a few issues to get past but for the most part for fedora core 4 to fedora core 5 you just have to follow a few simple steps:
- Remove any kernels before 2.6.14. There are packages that will not allow you to upgrade unless you do this step. Use the yum command: yum remove kernel-2.6.14* or the rpm command rpm -e kernel-2.6.14*
- Even though it isn't in the documentation I have had trouble in the past with some dependancies not working out correctly so I like to run "yum clean all" before starting the true upgrade.
- Install the fedora-release for Fedora Core 5. Use the rpm command: rpm -Uhv http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm
- Run the yum update: yum -y update
That is all there is to it.
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For more details see the following links:
YumUpgradeFaq and a good post on doing a FC4 to FC5 upgade.
will it destroy the existing FC4 data?
As much as any other update command would.
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i have trouble with update FC4 to FC5
–> Processing Dependency: libcrypto.so.5 for package: qmail-toaster
–> Processing Dependency: libssl.so.5 for package: spamassassin-toaster
–> Processing Conflict: djbdns conflicts bind
–> Processing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.14(libmysqlclient_14) for package: qmail-toaster
–> Processing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.14(libmysqlclient_14) for package: courier-authlib-toaster
–> Processing Dependency: libcrypto.so.5 for package: spamassassin-toaster
–> Processing Dependency: libssl.so.5 for package: qmail-toaster
–> Processing Dependency: libcrypto.so.5 for package: libdomainkeys-toaster
–> Processing Conflict: djbdns conflicts caching-nameserver
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.5 is needed by package spamassassin-toaster
Error: Missing Dependency: libssl.so.5 is needed by package spamassassin-toaster
Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.5 is needed by package libdomainkeys-toaster
Error: Missing Dependency: libssl.so.5 is needed by package qmail-toaster
Error: Missing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.14(libmysqlclient_14) is needed by package courier-authlib-toaster
Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.5 is needed by package qmail-toaster
Error: Missing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.14(libmysqlclient_14) is needed by package qmail-toaster
Error: djbdns conflicts with bind
Error: djbdns conflicts with caching-nameserver
Hello, all and Alexey especially!
i have the same problem with libssl.so.5 and libcrypto.so.5, just with the clamav package.
How one can overcome this problem? Alexey, have you succeeded?
I upgrade from FC4 to FC6 directly online & have not any problems. I did it on my laptop & trying the on my desktop.
Hello,
I have following erroe while FC4 to FC6 upgrade of my Desktop AMD 2400+ VIA chipset KT4V 6712 MSI Main Board with kingston 512 MB RAM.
Please any body have solution. Please replay to me.
–> Running transaction check
Error: Missing Dependency: mozilla = 37:1.7.8-2 is needed by package mozilla-mail
Error: Missing Dependency: libgnomecanvaspixbuf.so.1 is needed by package gtkhtml
Error: Missing Dependency: mozilla = 37:1.7.8-2 is needed by package mozilla-chat
Error: Missing Dependency: libgcj.so.6 is needed by package eclipse-pydev
Error: Missing Dependency: libgcj.so.6 is needed by package struts11
Error: Missing Dependency: hpoj = 0.91-13 is needed by package hpoj-devel
Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.5 is needed by package ckermit
Error: Missing Dependency: mozilla = 37:1.7.8-2 is needed by package mozilla-dom-inspector
Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.5 is needed by package perl-RPM2
Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB is needed by package openmotif
Error: Missing Dependency: mozilla = 37:1.7.8-2 is needed by package mozilla-js-debugger
Error: Missing Dependency: libssl.so.5 is needed by package ckermit
Error: Missing Dependency: libssl.so.5 is needed by package perl-RPM2
Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies
Error: Package hpoj-devel needs hpoj = 0.91-13, this is not available.
Error: Package openmotif needs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB, this is not available.
Error: Package ckermit needs libcrypto.so.5, this is not available.
Error: Package mozilla-js-debugger needs mozilla = 37:1.7.8-2, this is not available.
Error: Package perl-RPM2 needs libcrypto.so.5, this is not available.
Error: Package mozilla-dom-inspector needs mozilla = 37:1.7.8-2, this is not available.
Error: Package kudzu needs kernel
Has anyone solved the Missing Dependency issue?
Please try to read
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html
If this step fails, I recommend running the following command to capture all screen output to /tmp/yum_upgrade.
# yum upgrade 2>&1 | tee /tmp/yum_upgrade
Failures generally indicate that a currently-installed RPM has a dependency that cannot be satisfied with packages from the new Fedora Core release. Deprecated packages and packages from third party repositories may cause this problem.
The following generates a list of packages that may need to be removed prior to a successful yum upgrade.
$ perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if ((/Error: Missing Dependency:.*is needed by package (.*)$/) || (/Error: Package (.*?) needs.*, this is not available./))' /tmp/yum_upgrade | sort | uniq
Has anyone tried this remotely on a server? When the update is performed is there any local user intervention that is required?
Thanks,
Andy
I did an FC4->FC5 update on a box at the house, no problems (just had to re-configure my apache, it moved the old httpd.conf file to httpd.conf.rpmsave and replaced it with a new one, the old one had some problem that were resolved by doing an ediff to merge them together… but I digress…) Now confident, I did it on my remote server. On reboot, the machine stayed up for about 30 seconds and then locked up. The techs at the datacenter ended up having to change the kernel it booted into to the old FC4 kernel.
I'm not sure what is causing this, just now I did "rpm -qa –last > /tmp/RPMS_by_Install_Time.txt" and removed most of the packages that had an install date previous to the FC5 install. There were a couple of packages like splunk (which I never use), httpd-debug (not sure if this might be conflicting with the new apache), and mysql-debug (again, not sure if it was conflicting with the new mysql) – I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that I'll be able to do a successful reboot this weekend. Then it's off to updating to FC6 … and then 7 …
Yesterday I posted about my remote machine hanging after going from FC4->FC5, and that it was currently running in the old FC4 kernel. Tech support at the datacenter just gave me this little gem:
"kernel-2.6.20 is known to be unstable woth fedora core 5 . we recommend you use kernel-2.6.19 kernel-2.6.18 for fedora core 5."
Anyone else able to confirm this and recommend the best way to resolve it?