Upgrade from Fedora11 to Fedora12 Constantine

Important : Make a complete backup of any important data before performing an upgrade. Important data may include the contents of your entire /home directory as well as content from services such as an Apache, FTP, or SQL server, or a source code management system. Although upgrades are not destructive, if you perform one improperly there is a small possibility of data loss.

You made the backup ? Ready for upgrade ? If yes then let`s start the upgarde to Fedora12. GoodLuck

1- First Methode : Upgrade using preupgrade :

First update you packge to latest version with :

yum  update

try again to check if you have the latste rpm (redhat packge manager)

yum  update rpm

Now install the upgrade package :

yum install preupgrade

Now always on the terminal, run the upgrade using the command :

preupgrade

if you have some dependencies issues . please remove the packages bellow

totem-gstreamer

Policykit-kde

2- 2nd Methode :

Remember that is important to take a look on the upgrade page of fedora before to upgrade see link.

First install

rpm -ivh http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-12-1.noarch.rpm

rpm-ivh  http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-12.0.0-4.fc12.noarch.rpm

Now ,

Yum  update  

yum  upgrade 

3-3d Methode ; Upgrade from DVD Fedora12 .

When installing DVD please chose Upgrade instead of install and enjoy

After upgrade is finished , reboot your computer. And Goodluck :)

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