Thursday 1 March 2012

Upgrading Fedora from previous Fedora

There are a few things you need to do when upgrading from a previous version of Fedora. This was tested only with Fedora Core 6 so older versions may not work quite as easily. The first thing you want to do is upgrade the repository package for the newer version.
# rpm -Uhv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm
Fedora 7 comes with a much improved font package which does NOT get installed when you upgrade for some reason. You'll first want to remove any of the Microsoft fonts first if you had installed them previously then install the new Red Hat provided fonts:
# rpm -ev msttcorefonts
# yum -y install liberation-fonts
# service xfs restart
And finally you're going to need to do an update of the whole system. This will most likely pick up official Fedora updates as well as updated packages from the Livnarepository. This might take a while.
# yum -y update

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