Fedora Core 3 Upgrade

After a bit more playing with my upgraded laptop, I found that not all my FC2 packages were upgraded. I tried opening OpenOffice Writer and found that it wouldn’t start. After getting various library errors and checking the RPMs, I saw that the RPMs were old FC2 RPMs.

I made sure yum was setup correctly commented out sites that didn’t yet have FC3 repos, and ran a “yum update” to force all the packages to be updated. Over 200 individual packages, including OpenOffice were upgraded using yum. Not sure why the Fedora installer didn’t upgrade them.

Most of these RPMs were standard Fedora Core 2 RPMs and not RPMs from other sources so I believe they should have been upgraded during installation. Maybe I will do an upgrade of my desktop at home before doing a fresh install. Overall, I am still very happy with FC3. I still have to find out all the nuances but a custom web application I’ve been working on had absolutely no problems running after the upgrade. That definitely made my day!!

Keep up the great work!


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