[mythtv-users] upgrading from ( FC4 + apt-get ) to FC5

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Sun Jul 9 12:35:59 UTC 2006


On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 11:03:46AM +0200, Franco wrote:
> so I took courage and started the procedure on one of the mythboxes.
> I'm halfway and following your suggested steps but (as expected)
> there are troubles... here follows what is happening:
> 
> > This only happens when the installer gets half-way killed
> 
> OK. I made room on the disk (3 Gigs) so it wouldn't die
> during the procedure due to out of space.
> 
> > o CD in
> 
> I put in the FC5 DVD
> 
> > o Upgrade
> > o CD out
> 
> OK, it went smooth till here. Then I rebooted, and did a:
>         rpm -qa | grep [Ff][Cc]4 | wc
> It says that 143 fc4 packages are still there.
> They are mostly mythtv related packages so OK, the FC5 DVD
> couldn't upgrade those.
> 
> > o Fix the depsolver's config files
> 
> I went to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
> tehre are two files: atrpms.list  base.list
> I edited both them and changed any reference to "fc4" with "fc5"
> 
> > o Let the depsolver upgrade the rest of your system.
> 
> I did:
>         apt-get update
> then
>         apt-get -f install
> 
> and look what it says:
> 
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   compat-slang gaim glitz gnupg gstreamer-tools gtk2 kdebase kdelibs
> libstdc++so7
>   perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Bignum perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA perl-Net_SSLeay.pm
> scim-libs sendmail sendmail-cf
>   transcode
> The following packages will be upgraded
>   gaim glitz gnupg gtk2 kdebase kdelibs libstdc++so7
> perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Bignum perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA
>   perl-Net_SSLeay.pm scim-libs sendmail sendmail-cf transcode
> The following packages will be REPLACED:
>   iiimf-libs (by scim-libs)
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   librpm4.4 pine tv-fonts xine
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   compat-slang gstreamer-tools
> WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
> This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
>   librpm4.4 (due to apt)
> 14 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 replaced, 4 removed and 278 not upgraded.
> Need to get 67.3MB of archives.
> After unpacking 15.5MB disk space will be freed.
> You are about to do something potentially harmful
> To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
>  ?]
> 
> This is exactly the problem I had experienced with FC2->FC3 upgrade and
> also with FC3->FC4 upgrade, that  I wished to avoid.

I don't see the problem (?)

> I followed your instructions literally, as reported above,
> so I am quite surprised I am the only one reporting this.
> Since FC2->FC3 upgrade, it happened me every time I tried it,
> on every PC I tried it.  It should affect thousands persons.
> 
> However, can you suggest me how to exit this sort-of deadlock
> without seriously break this machine?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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