upgrade fedora 7 to fedora 8 using DVD

hhmm…

required download from website or torrent .. Fedora-8-i386-DVD.iso

mkdir -p /media/fedora

mount -o loop Fedora-8-i386-DVD.iso /media/fedora

get to latest update of fc7

yum update -y

clean all cache..

yum clean all

d

get fedora 8 release..

rpm -Uvh /media/fedora/fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh /media/fedora/fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3.noarch.rpm

tweak yum.repos.d

insert this into /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo

[fedora-dvd]
name=Fedora DVD
baseurl=file:///media/fedora
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

now for the real..

yum upgrade --disablerepo \\* --enablerepo fedora-dvd

but not that smooth..

i got this..

weird-yelp.PNG

need some more..

yum remove yelp -y

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8 Responses

  1. HawkEYE says:

    uploaded the google gadget for linux(CentOS 5.2) binary only to

    http://my.namran.net/repository/gg-binary.tgz

    Reply
  2. HawkEYE says:

    uploaded the google gadget for linux(CentOS 5.2) binary only to

    http://my.namran.net/repository/gg-binary.tgz

    Reply
  3. HawkEYE says:

    for ease of use .. add a launcher at desktop
    with this parameter at command box.

    /usr/local/bin/ggl-gtk >/dev/null > 2&1

    select the icon .. and fill in the description..

    done.

    click and google gadget will appear.

    Reply
  4. HawkEYE says:

    for ease of use .. add a launcher at desktop
    with this parameter at command box.

    /usr/local/bin/ggl-gtk >/dev/null > 2&1

    select the icon .. and fill in the description..

    done.

    click and google gadget will appear.

    Reply
  5. shibu073 says:

    using the gg-binary tar file .I am not able to install google gadgets in centos 5.2. when i run the command “ggl-gtk “it gives error as

    Not a regular file: /
    ggl-gtk: symbol lookup error: ggl-gtk: undefined symbol: _ZN7ggadget7SideBar26ConnectOnGoogleIconClickedEPNS_5Slot0IvEE
    You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root

    Reply
  6. shibu073 says:

    using the gg-binary tar file .I am not able to install google gadgets in centos 5.2. when i run the command “ggl-gtk “it gives error as

    Not a regular file: /
    ggl-gtk: symbol lookup error: ggl-gtk: undefined symbol: _ZN7ggadget7SideBar26ConnectOnGoogleIconClickedEPNS_5Slot0IvEE
    You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root

    Reply
  7. HawkEYE says:

    i think it is because the different version of the underneath library ..
    as per
    http://code.google.com/p/google-gadgets-for-linux/issues/detail?id=266

    better rebuild the package from the source again following above instruction..

    binary tend to be useless anyway.. ;-(

    Reply
  8. HawkEYE says:

    i think it is because the different version of the underneath library ..
    as per
    http://code.google.com/p/google-gadgets-for-linux/issues/detail?id=266

    better rebuild the package from the source again following above instruction..

    binary tend to be useless anyway.. ;-(

    Reply

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