Hey guys, im trying to upgrade my linode from fedora core 1 to core 2 remotely with yum, and im having problems.

I get this error:

[root@li5-11 etc]# yum upgrade
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Finding obsoleted packages
Resolving dependencies
.Package apt needs librpm-4.2.so, this is not available.
Package apt needs librpmdb-4.2.so, this is not available.
Package apt needs librpmio-4.2.so, this is not available.

So i go and do a search, and librpm-4.2.so is in package rpm-4.2.1-0.30.i386.rpm. So i download it and do a rpm --verbose --install rpm*.

It tells me that package is already installed!

[root@li5-11 root]# locate librpm-4.2.so
/usr/lib/librpm-4.2.so
[root@li5-11 root]#

And that file its complaining it doesnt have is already on my box.

What's going on?


Thanks for your help!

Remove apt-get from the system with something along the lines of "rpm -e apt" (or perhaps apt-get), then try the yum upgrade again ...

-Chris

nice. thanks, that worked perfectly. i wasnt exactly sure what "apt" was. looked like it had somethin to do with the rpm manager so i was scared to remove it.