{"id":548,"date":"2006-06-21T19:08:22","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T03:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2006-06-21T19:29:13","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T03:29:13","slug":"upgrading-to-fedora-core-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/21\/upgrading-to-fedora-core-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading to Fedora Core 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

After having successsfully upgraded<\/a> my spared Dell box to Fedora Core 5, I messed up the boot partition and had to do it all over again. So I decided I might as well document it here since the processs wasn’t quite as smooth as one’d hope.<\/p>\n

UPGRADING FEDORA CORE 4 TO CORE 5 USING YUM<\/strong>
\n1. First, make sure<\/p>\n

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yum<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

is up to date. If you are going to upgrade your system with it, you might as well make sure the tool is up to pars.<\/p>\n

me@localhost$<\/p>\n

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yum -y upgrade yum<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is going to download a bunch of other stuff other than<\/p>\n

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yum<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

. So be patient.<\/p>\n

2a. Next, make sure sure your<\/p>\n

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kernel<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

is up to date as well. Or else when you upgrade to FC5, it will throw a bunch of errors like this:<\/p>\n

\n
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Error: Package initscripts needs kernel < 2.6.12, this is not available.
\n  Error: Package kudzu needs kernel < 2.6.13, this is not available.<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So here we go:<\/p>\n

me@localhost$<\/p>\n

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 yum -y upgrade kernel<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

For multi-CPU systems, do the following instead:
\nme@localhost$<\/p>\n

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yum -y upgrade kernel-smp<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

2b. Just to be on the safe side, some packages may need to be removed before upgrading. This script should tell you what needs to go:<\/p>\n

me@localhost$<\/p>\n

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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<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

3. Reboot. Make sure you boot into the latest<\/p>\n

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kernel<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

or else you are going to have the same problems as I mentioned before.<\/p>\n

4a. Now delete any old<\/p>\n

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kernels<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

you have still on your system. First, let’s see what’s there:<\/p>\n

me@localhost$<\/p>\n

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rpm -q kernel kernel-smp kernel-devel kernel-smp-devel | sort<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

4b. Delete old<\/p>\n

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kernels<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

:<\/p>\n

me@localhost$<\/p>\n

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rpm -e kernel-version-number<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I read somewhere that you should delete<\/p>\n

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kernels<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

by using<\/p>\n

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rpm<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

since it also tidies up your bootloader file for you.<\/p>\n

Optional: Update<\/p>\n

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rpm<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

packages:<\/p>\n

me@localhost$<\/p>\n

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rpm --rebuilddb<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

5. Now we are ready to get the FC5 upgrade package:<\/p>\n

me@localhost$<\/p>\n

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rpm -Uvh <a href="http:\/\/download.fedora.redhat.com\/pub\/fedora\/linux\/core\/5\/i386\/os\/Fedora\/RPMS\/fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm" target="_blank">http:\/\/download.fedora
\n.redhat.com\/pub\/fedora\/linux\/core\/5\/i386\/os
\n\/Fedora\/RPMS\/fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm<\/a> (this code wraps for cosmetic reasons. But you should copy\/paste this as if it's one unbroken line.)<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

6. Finally. Show time. Let’s upgrade this puppy… <\/p>\n

me@localhost$<\/p>\n

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yum -y upgrade<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now sit tight and wait. This could take a while depending on your Internet connection. It took me roughly 5-7 hours on a moderately fast DSL.<\/p>\n

7. Once everything is downloaded and installed, reboot.<\/p>\n

8. It’s probably a good idea to keep your old<\/p>\n

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kernels<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

. But I deleted my FC4 kernels.<\/p>\n

INSTALLING VMWARE 5.5.1.x<\/strong>
\nNothing is EVER easy on Linux. The same assumption (and proof) goes to updating VMWare after the FC5 upgrade. VMWare complained about not being able to find “the directory of C header files”. To resolve this problem, you must download the<\/p>\n

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<a href="http:\/\/ftp.cvut.cz\/vmware\/vmware-any-any-update101.tar.gz" target="_blank">vmware-any-any-update101.tar.gz<\/a><\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

and run it. Everything will hum just fine after this update is applied to VMWare.<\/p>\n

Much thanks to: brandonhutchinson.com<\/a> and LinuxSky.com<\/a> (Simplified Chinese only)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After having successsfully upgraded my spared Dell box to Fedora Core 5, I messed up the boot partition and had to do it all over again. So I decided I might as well document it here since the processs wasn’t quite as smooth as one’d hope. UPGRADING FEDORA CORE 4 TO CORE 5 USING YUM … Continue reading “Upgrading to Fedora Core 5”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-linuxunix","category-tips-tricks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-8Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}