\n\tThe Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 upgrade follows the general procedure outlined on the very first Fedora Core upgrade page:\n<\/p>\n
\n\tRedHat Fedora: Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 Upgrade<\/a> . If you have not already upgraded to F8<\/strong> please visit RedHat Fedora: Fedora 7<\/a> to Fedora 8 upgrade.<\/a> page first before going up to FC9<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n \n\tYou will only need to replace step 8 )<\/strong> with the below step:\n<\/p>\n \n\t8 )<\/strong> Install fedora-relese either using the RPM’s in step 2)<\/strong> below or use another mirror from the fedora.redhat.com<\/a> site. You can also use the mirrors from fedoralegacy.org<\/a> if your distribution is too old.\n<\/p>\n \n\tUpgrading to Fedora 9 is straightforward, in theory, and follows only a few basic steps below however there are some considerations which you may wish to review. If you're feeling lucky, you can just skip to THE BASIC STEPS<\/strong><\/a> further down.\n<\/p>\n \n\t\n<\/p>\n \n\tCONSIDERATIONS<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \n\tBecause Fedora 9<\/strong> is a new<\/strong><\/em><\/span> release, it’s probably advisable to check if you ‘really’ want to upgrade. One thing to do is check ‘ http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/DocsProject\/Schedule#Post-release<\/a>‘ for release notes and dates. If you are dependent on your Linux distribution for any amount of job\/home related work, you might want to wait for the FINAL or official version AND possibly even for a bug fix be rolled out. One big change to note is that we will move from KDE 3.X<\/strong> to KDE 4<\/strong>. As with any X.0 versions<\/em><\/span> of software, tendency is that they will be buggy and is a risk you need to weight. Per the site above, it looks like Fedora 9<\/strong> is ready for release. We see the latest Post-release updates are also done on:\n<\/p>\n \n\t“30 May 2008 fedora-release-notes package update”<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tIt seams we are good to go and there seams to be even a patch release per above. The procedure is therefore the same.\n<\/p>\n \n\tNOTE:<\/strong><\/span> Since my own upgrade to Fedora 9, I have seen plenty of changes and problems, the bulk of which is with KDE 4.0. However recently KDE 4.1 was released with addressed a set of problems though others still persist. To date there may likely be some problems you may face after the upgrade. Here is a couple of links to help you decide if upgrading is the right choice for you:\n<\/p>\n \n\tFedora 9 and KDE 4.x: Problems starting applications due to xorg-x11-xfs<\/a> \n\tRPM unable to uninstall RPM’s: scriptlet failed, exit status 1<\/a> \n\tWhat changes to expect can be viewed from this great article<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n \n\tIn addition to the above, the KDE 4.0<\/strong> appeared very unyieldly to me and not nearly as configurable as it’s predecessor KDE 3.5.X<\/strong> versions were. So much so that most functionality you may have been used to, is now either disabled or not there at all, even simple things like resizing the taskbar can’t be done by drag and drop and I wasn’t able to figure out how to enable it. Your mileage may vary. Though this is not a show stopper for me as I’ve adjusted to using KDE 4.0’s new features, it may be a more serious issue for some.\n<\/p>\n \n\t \n<\/p>\n \n\tTHE BASIC STEPS<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \n\t1)<\/strong> nice -n 19 yum update \n\tNOTE:<\/strong><\/span> You can forgo the use of ‘nice<\/strong>‘ alltogether but would recommend it if you still want to use your system for other porposes, while upgrading, without incuring a significant slowdown due to the upgrade.\n<\/p>\n \n\t \n<\/p>\n \n\t1)<\/span><\/span><\/strong> <\/span>Ensure your Fedora 8 is up to date by running ‘nice -n 19 yum update<\/strong>‘.\n<\/p>\n \n\t2)<\/strong><\/span><\/span> Again we start off by making some work folder for all the files and notes we will take on the upgrade process:\n<\/p>\n \n\t$ cd \/some\/dir \n\tNothing was noted for update. Then:\n<\/p>\n \n\t$ nice -n 19 yum clean all<\/strong> \n\tThe above removed a bunch of packages again as it did from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8 upgrade. Ran it second time to get:\n<\/p>\n \n\t$ nice -n 19 yum clean all<\/strong> \n\tall \n\tMeaning my system is now clean. I followed the above by installing the Fedora 9 releases:\n<\/p>\n \n\t$ wget http:\/\/download.fedora.redhat.com\/pub\/fedora\/linux\/releases\/9\/Fedora\/i386\/os\/Packages\/fedora-release-notes-9.0.0-1.noarch.rpm \n\t \n\t3) <\/strong><\/span><\/span>Next we start the actual upgrade process. As before, this will tell us any missing dependencies we have which we’ll need to resolve prior to completing the upgrade:\n<\/p>\n \n\t$ nice -n 19 yum -y upgrade 2>&1|tee .\/Fedora-8-upgrade.June.29.2008.02.00.PM.txt<\/strong> . . Error: Missing Dependency: tcl-devel = 1:8.5.1 is needed by package tk-devel Error: Missing Dependency: libtermcap.so.2 is needed by package nvi-m17n-nocanna Error: Missing Dependency: libtermcap.so.2 is needed by package ckermit Error: Missing Dependency: libtermcap.so.2 is needed by package nvi-m17n-canna Error: Missing Dependency: libssl.so.6 is needed by package ckermit Error: Missing Dependency: libtermcap is needed by package compat-slang Error: Missing Dependency: libkdecorations.so.1 is needed by package deKorator Error: Missing Dependency: libtermcap.so.2 is needed by package cdecl Error: Missing Dependency: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.6) is needed by package perl-XML-Encoding Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.6 is needed by package ckermit Error: Missing Dependency: tcl = 1:8.5.1 is needed by package tk $\n<\/p>\n \n\tI then decided to download the missing packages. For a hint of what to get, check ‘.\/Fedora-8-upgrade.June.29.2008.02.00.PM.txt<\/strong>‘ above that you generated part from the update step:\n<\/p>\n \n\tAs I checked .\/Fedora-8-upgrade.June.29.2008.02.00.PM.txt<\/strong>, I noticed that there are two versions of tcl-devel<\/strong> but only one of tk-devel<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \n\t. \n\tyum found 8.5.2-2.fc9.i386<\/strong> but only choose the 8.5.1-4<\/strong> version suitable for the upgrade. As I checked the various repos online, I notice that:\n<\/p>\n \n\ttcl-devel-8.5.2-2.fc9.i386.rpm \n\tbut only one for tk-devel<\/strong>:\n<\/p>\n \n\ttk-devel-8.5.1-4.fc9.i386.rpm\n<\/p>\n \n\tI checked ‘http:\/\/rpmfind.net<\/a>‘ online to see what are the current versions available. The same case was true when I checked: many of the packages did not have the same versions. I had enough fun for the day and decided to look into this problem later. The next day, I checked with ‘cat \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/fedora-updates.repo<\/strong>‘:\n<\/p>\n \n\t. \n\tI replaced the above with:\n<\/p>\n \n\thttp:\/\/mirrors.fedoraproject.org\/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f9&arch=i386\n<\/p>\n \n\tto check which repositories it is accessing. I checked some of them and now ‘tk-devel<\/strong>‘ also came in 8.5.2-2<\/strong>‘ version as well! On one of the sites listed by above command ( http:\/\/gulus.usherbrooke.ca\/pub\/distro\/fedora\/linux\/updates\/9\/i386<\/a>) I see:\n<\/p>\n \n\ttcl-8.5.2-2.fc9.i386.rpm 2008-Jun-27 23:06:53 2.1M application\/octet-stream \n\ttelling me that that package was actively being updated at the time when I was having these issues above. I rerun the upgrade with\n<\/p>\n \n\t$ nice -n 19 yum -y upgrade 2>&1|tee .\/Fedora-9-upgrade.June.30.2008.02.00.PM.txt<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \n\tThis time no issues from\n<\/p>\n \n\ttk-devel<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \n\tor\n<\/p>\n \n\ttcl-devel<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \n\tOutput of above command is below:\n<\/p>\n \n\t. \n\tError: Missing Dependency: libtermcap.so.2 is needed by package nvi-m17n-nocanna \n\tNow I only have 9 dependencies left\n<\/p>\n \n\t$ rpm -q –whatprovides libtermcap.so.2 \n\tI see that both are installed on my system. nvi-m17n-nocanna<\/strong> sounds vaguely familiar which probably means I installed it in the past at some point. I check one of the mirrors: http:\/\/fedora.mirror.umoss.org\/fedora\/linux\/updates\/9\/i386\/<\/a>. The package nvi-m17n-nocanna<\/strong> doesn’t exist as a package in the repo list. In this case, I have little choice but to remove nvi-m17n-nocanna<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n \n\t$ rpm -e nvi-m17n-nocanna-1.79-20040401.23<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \n\tI will reinstall it later if needed and available. The same situation applies to ckermit. It also turns out that ckermit was an older FC5 package that didn’t get removed. The same situation applies to the following packages as well:\n<\/p>\n \n\tckermit-8.0.211-5.fc5 \n\tThe next attempt gave me another missing dependency:\n<\/p>\n \n\t$ nice -n 19 yum -y upgrade 2>&1|tee .\/Fedora-9-upgrade.July.4.2008.00.13.AM.txt<\/strong> \n\tI reran above upgrade after removing ‘nvi-m17n-canna<\/strong>‘. This time no dependencies were listed:\n<\/p>\n \n\t$ nice -n 19 yum -y upgrade 2>&1|tee .\/Fedora-9-upgrade.July.4.2008.01.23.AM.txt<\/strong> \n\tTotal download size: 2.9 G<\/strong> \n\ttimeout and a whopping 2.9 GB needs to be downloaded. the timeout was due to my Cable Modem loosing it’s connection to my unnamed ISP. I power cycled the Cable Modem and the installation continued after a few dozen of the above messages but failed anyway eventually. Rerunning the upgrade produced a few of:\n<\/p>\n \n\tfile \/usr\/share\/man\/man8\/ftpd_selinux.8.gz from install of selinux-policy-3.3.1-74.fc9.noarch conflicts with file from package selinux-policy-strict-1.27.1-2.27.noarch\n<\/p>\n \n\tOne possible solution to removing the selinux problem above is to remove some of the modules or all if you do not wish to use selinux\n<\/p>\n \n\t$ rpm -e –notriggers selinux-policy-strict-1.27.1-2.27<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \n\tor for a more complete removal use:\n<\/p>\n \n\t$ rpm -e –notriggers –allmatches selinux-policy-strict<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \n\tTo remove I ran:\n<\/p>\n \n\t$ rpm -aq|grep selinux-policy-strict<\/strong> \n\tI then reran\n<\/p>\n \n\t$ nice -n 19 yum -y upgrade 2>&1|tee .\/Fedora-9-upgrade.July.4.2008.10.32.PM.txt<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \n\tThis time the installation completed and I rebooted to Fedora 9. However, there were problems, particularly with KDE 4<\/strong>. As of the writing of this post, I reran ‘nice -n 19 yum -y upgrade<\/strong>‘ which listed some 240 packages to be updated since I upgraded to Fedora 9 two weeks ago. This gives some clue as to the active community behind Fedora 9<\/strong>. For the list of issues, use the top right search box for the issue you have.\n<\/p>\n \n\tAfter doing this many upgrades (In this case From Fedore Core 1<\/strong> to Fedora 9<\/strong>), you may want to remove some of the old packages you have had.\n<\/p>\n \n\t$ rpm -aq|grep fc4<\/em><\/strong> \n\tRepeat the above for FC1<\/strong> through FC9<\/strong> (Yes including the ‘C<\/strong><\/span>‘ in F7<\/strong> to F9<\/strong>). Once you are done with the upgrade, you may wish to visit Fedora 9 and KDE 4.x: Problems starting applications due to xorg-x11-xfs<\/a> and remove this package if you run into any issues listed at the beginning of this article.<\/p>\n\n
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\n\tAcrobat Reader on Fedora 9: Seamingly never ending list of or non stop continous “expr: syntax error”<\/a>\n<\/p>\n
\n\tKDE 4.X and Fedora 9: Problems starting xserver after changing video settings.<\/a>
\n\tKDE 4.X and Fedora 9: The taskbar is gone.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\t2)<\/strong> cd \/some\/dir
\n\t3)<\/strong> mkdir .\/F8toF9
\n\t4)<\/strong> cd .\/F8toF9
\n\t5)<\/strong> nice -n 19 yum -y upgrade
\n\t6)<\/strong> nice -n 19 yum clean all
\n\t7)<\/strong> nice -n 19 yum clean all (Just to make sure)
\n\t8 )<\/strong> wget http:\/\/download.fedora.redhat.com\/pub\/fedora\/linux\/releases\/9\/Fedora\/i386\/os\/Packages\/fedora-release-notes-9.0.0-1.noarch.rpm
\n\t9)<\/strong> wget http:\/\/download.fedora.redhat.com\/pub\/fedora\/linux\/releases\/9\/Fedora\/i386\/os\/Packages\/fedora-release-9-2.noarch.rpm
\n\t10)<\/strong> rpm -Uvh fedora-release*.rpm
\n\t11)<\/strong> cat \/etc\/fedora-release (Make sure ‘Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)<\/strong>‘ appears )
\n\t12)<\/strong> nice -n 19 yum -y upgrade 2>&1|tee .\/Fedora-8-upgrade.June.29.2008.02.00.PM.txt
\n\t13)<\/strong> Refer below for any issues and repeat step 12) as necessary.\n<\/p>\n\n\tUPGRADING <\/strong>
\n<\/h3>\n
\n
\n\t$ mkdir .\/F8toF9
\n\t$ cd .\/F8toF9
\n\t$ nice -n 19 yum -y upgrade <\/strong>(Current version – we have not yet installed the release rpm)
\n\t.
\n\t.
\n\t.
\n\tNo Packages marked for Update
\n\t$<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n
\n\t.
\n\t.
\n\t.
\n\t.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tYum Version: 3.2.8
\n\tCOMMAND: yum clean all
\n\tInstallroot: \/
\n\tExt Commands:\n<\/p>\n
\n\tCleaning up Everything
\n\t$<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n
\n\t$ wget http:\/\/download.fedora.redhat.com\/pub\/fedora\/linux\/releases\/9\/Fedora\/i386\/os\/Packages\/fedora-release-9-2.noarch.rpm
\n\t$ rpm -Uvh fedora-release*.rpm<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n
\n\t$ cat \/etc\/fedora-release<\/strong>
\n\tFedora release 9 (Sulphur)
\n\t$\n<\/p>\n
\n\t.
\n\ttk-devel requires: tcl-devel = 1:8.5.1
\n\tProcessing Dependency: tcl-devel = 1:8.5.1 for package: tk-devel
\n\tSearching pkgSack for dep: tcl-devel
\n\tskipping reposetup, pkgsack exists
\n\t.
\n\t.
\n\tPotential match for tcl-devel from tcl-devel – 1:8.5.1-4.fc9.i386
\n\tMatched tcl-devel – 1:8.5.1-4.fc9.i386 to require for tcl-devel
\n\tPotential match for tcl-devel from tcl-devel – 1:8.5.2-2.fc9.i386
\n\tPotential resolving package tcl-devel – 1:8.5.1-4.fc9.i386 has newer instance in ts.
\n\t.
\n\t.\n<\/p>\n
\n\ttcl-devel-8.5.1-4.fc9.i386.rpm\n<\/p>\n
\n\t.
\n\tmirrorlist=http:\/\/mirrors.fedoraproject.org\/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
\n\t.
\n\t.\n<\/p>\n
\n\ttcl-devel-8.5.2-2.fc9.i386.rpm 2008-Jun-27 23:06:57 171.2K application\/octet-stream\n<\/p>\n
\n\t.
\n\t.
\n\t.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tError: Missing Dependency: libtermcap.so.2 is needed by package ckermit
\n\tError: Missing Dependency: libtermcap.so.2 is needed by package nvi-m17n-canna
\n\tError: Missing Dependency: libssl.so.6 is needed by package ckermit
\n\tError: Missing Dependency: libtermcap is needed by package compat-slang
\n\tError: Missing Dependency: libkdecorations.so.1 is needed by package deKorator
\n\tError: Missing Dependency: libtermcap.so.2 is needed by package cdecl
\n\tError: Missing Dependency: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.6) is needed by package perl-XML-Encoding
\n\tError: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.6 is needed by package ckermit\n<\/p>\n
\n\t$ rpm -aq|grep nvi-m17n-nocanna\n<\/p>\n
\n\tcompat-slang-1.4.9-27.2.2
\n\tdeKorator-0.1-1fb
\n\tcdecl-2.5-30
\n\tperl-XML-Encoding-1.01-27<\/em>\n<\/p>\n
\n\tError: Missing Dependency: libtermcap.so.2 is needed by package nvi-m17n-canna\n<\/p>\n
\n\t.
\n\t.
\n\tTransaction Summary
\n\t=============================================================================
\n\tInstall 199 Package(s)
\n\tUpdate 1859 Package(s)
\n\tRemove 1 Package(s)\n<\/p>\n
\n\tDownloading Packages:
\n\t.
\n\t.
\n\thttp:\/\/less.cogeco.net\/ftp\/fedora\/linux\/updates\/9\/i386\/kdeedu-4.0.5-1.fc9.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out
\n\tTrying other mirror.
\n\t.
\n\t.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tselinux-policy-strict-1.27.1-2.27
\n\t$ rpm -e selinux-policy-strict-1.27.1-2.27<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\tCLEANING UP OLD PACKAGES <\/strong>
\n<\/h3>\n
\n
\n\tskype-1.3.0.53-fc4
\n\tumb-scheme-3.2-39.fc4.1
\n\tcdicconf-0.2-11.1.fc4
\n\tiiimf-server-12.2-4.fc4.2
\n\tlibfame-0.9.1-7.2.fc4
\n\t$ rpm -e skype-1.3.0.53-fc4
\n\t$ rpm -e umb-scheme-3.2-39.fc4.1
\n\t$ rpm -e cdicconf-0.2-11.1.fc4
\n\t$ rpm -e iiimf-server-12.2-4.fc4.2<\/strong>
\n\tuserdel: user iiimd does not exist
\n\terror: %preun(iiimf-server-12.2-4.fc4.2.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 6
\n\t$ rpm -e libfame-0.9.1-7.2.fc4<\/strong>
\n\t$\n<\/p>\n