Fedora upgrade from 6 to 9

Will Partain will.partain at verilab.com
Mon Aug 18 14:39:55 UTC 2008


"Mark Haney" <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> writes:

> Sundeep Pundamale wrote:
>> Can some one provide instructions to upgrade fedora 6 to fedora
>> 9. What are the precautions that needs to be taken so as to not
>> break the system and existing configurations.
>>
>
> A couple of caveats though.  Any 3rd party repos you use, you might
> want to get rid of the installed packages at some point in the
> process.  ...

You might also want to 'yum install yum-utils' and then run
'package-cleanup' in its various guises.  A maximally-tidy RPM
world is desirable for what you're thinking of doing.  (No
promises, of course.)

Will




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