Upgrade from Fedora11 to Fedora12 Constantine

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As everybody knows ,Fedora 12 is out, If maybe you still running the old version like Fedora 11 or 10 and you need to upgrade to fedora12, then you have to know that upgarding to this release is only possible from Fedora 11, if you are using an older version, you will need first to upgrade to Fedora11 before to go to 12.

Before to start the upgrade, remember that is important to take a look on the upgrade page of fedora before to upgrade , because you can have more advises about upgrade procedure.

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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