{"id":612,"date":"2006-11-02T11:14:28","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T19:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/02\/upgrading-to-fedora-core-6\/"},"modified":"2006-11-02T12:37:50","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T20:37:50","slug":"upgrading-to-fedora-core-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/02\/upgrading-to-fedora-core-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading to Fedora Core 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally got around to upgrading my Dell to Fedora Core 6 using yum<\/a>. My last attempt<\/a> failed pretty miserably mainly because of some stupid package dependencies I couldn’t figure out how to resolve (something to do with<\/p>\n

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

, which was kind of what happened in my attempt to upgrade from FC4 to FC5<\/a>). So instead of dealing with it, I simply shut it up… Here are the steps:<\/p>\n

\n1. me@localhost$<\/p>\n

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rpm -ev fedora-release --nodeps<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

2. me@localhost$<\/p>\n

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rpm -Uvh [url-to-fc6-release-notes]<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

3. me@localhost$<\/p>\n

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rpm -Uvh [url-to-fc6-release]<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

4. me@localhost$<\/p>\n

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

5. me@localhost$<\/p>\n

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

By step 5, everything should’ve gone flawlessly, except, again, Fedora threw a fit on dependency problems such as<\/p>\n

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bg5ps<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

,<\/p>\n

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

and a couple of other packages. Again, instead of dealing with resolving them, I just removed them:<\/p>\n

\n1. me@localhost$<\/p>\n

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yum remove bg5ps<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

2. …. (repeat step 1 until all problematic dependencies are removed)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then everything was good. And as it turns out, the new kernel that came with FC6 (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686) is capable of handling dual cpu systems, unlike kernels before that where I had to specifically update multi-processor capable kernels (kernel-smp). I wasted about 20 minutes trying to find\/update something that never existed! <\/p>\n

Finally, after reboot, I got my nice FC6 all up and running. Life was good except now VMWare refuses to launch. So I had to reinstall it because of the new kernel I installed. Unfortunately, VMWare couldn’t locate the new kernel’s c header library (usually installed at<\/p>\n

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\/usr\/src\/`uname -r`\/include<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

). But it wasn’t there!!! Even though I had the latest kernel, its c header library still could not be found! After some research, I finally was able to resolve that by force installing<\/p>\n

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

and<\/p>\n

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

rpm files:<\/p>\n

\nme@localhost$<\/p>\n

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 rpm -Uvh --force [url-to-kernel-rpm-package]<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

Issue the command above for both the current<\/p>\n

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

and<\/p>\n

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kernel-devel<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Once VMWare got its kernel c header library, it was happy. And life was good again…. <\/p>\n

My next project with that machine is to upgrade its CPUs with a couple of nice Pentium 3 Slot 1 modules at the maximum clock speed the machine can handle (which is at around 1.1Ghz — fast compared to 450mhz I currently have). These types of CPUs are pretty hard to come by because Intel abandoned Slot 1 architecture a long time ago.<\/p>\n

Fedora Core 6 upgrade made possible by this discussion thread<\/a> at fedoraforum.org<\/a>. VMWare troubleshooting and resolution made possible by this discussion thread<\/a> on VMWare’s community site and this discussion thread<\/a> on fedoraforum.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally got around to upgrading my Dell to Fedora Core 6 using yum. My last attempt failed pretty miserably mainly because of some stupid package dependencies I couldn’t figure out how to resolve (something to do with 1initscripts , which was kind of what happened in my attempt to upgrade from FC4 to FC5). … Continue reading “Upgrading to Fedora Core 6”<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-linuxunix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-9S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","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=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}