F15 -> F17 upgrade "A unpack error occurred when installing the numpy package"

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/20/2012 10:20 PM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote:
> Well I had tried to just upgrade my system using "preupgrade" and here's the error
> message I'm getting, don't know if it's related to the same problem you're having.
>
> bash-4.2# preupgrade
> No protocol specified
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 53, in <module>
>     import gtk
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in <module>
>     _init()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 52, in _init
>     _gtk.init_check()
> RuntimeError: could not open display
> bash-4.2# 

You seem to be trying to run preupgrade from run level 3?  You aren't in a GUI
setting, so you need to run preupgrade-cli.

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