FC2 to FC3 yum problems!

[cooldude7273]

Hi,

I'm trying to upgrade from FC 2 to 3 using these instructions:

http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading...x_with_yum.html . I

have done everything it says up to part 4. When I type "yum" anything, it

gives me:

root@tagging [~]# yum
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 6, in ?
    import yummain
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 23, in ?
    import yum
  Warning: No module named yum

Any help or ideas will be greatly appretiated! Thanks!

yum works fine when I revert to FC 2 yum and fedora-release rpms

[cooldude7273]

anyone?

[markwolfe Veteran]

I went from FC1 to FC3 using CDs. I skipped FC2, as it didn't offer anything I did not have via yum update. FC3 was a new kernel, and I elected to do it via CDs rather than risk running into problems with yumming it.

[cooldude7273]

Thing is, I'm in Atlanta, and the server is in Boston. Would it be easiest to have the datacenter update?

[markwolfe Veteran]

Is this a remove web/mailserver or some such dedicated PC? If so, and there are no features needed in FC3 (and providing that the packages are updated!), there is no problem with FC1. All security issues are back-ported to keep you safe and secure.

http://secunia.com/product/3489/

[cooldude7273]

I was told my server has a bad mix of Redhat 9 / FC 2 packages on it. I think the upgrade never completed maybe, so I ran yum -y upgrade to finish:

root@tagging [~]# yum -y upgrade
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora.us Extras (Stable)
Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
Server: macromedia.mplug.org - Flash Plugin
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
retrygrab() failed for:
  http://ftp.ens.utulsa.edu/pub/linux/fedora/core/updates/2/i386/headers/header.info
  Executing failover method
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Finding obsoleted packages
Resolving dependencies
......Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package jdkgcj needs gcc-java = 3.2.2, this is not available.
Package qt-Xt needs qt = 1:3.1.1-6, this is not available.
Package jdkgcj needs libgcj = 3.2.2, this is not available.
Package db4-java needs db4 = 4.0.14-20, this is not available.
Package galeon needs mozilla = 35:1.2.1, this is not available.

And I had previously installed those earlier from the RH9 RPMS.

:no:

[markwolfe Veteran]

Can you use yum to install the missing packages? If they aren't in the current repositories listed in your /etc/yum.conf, you may need to edit that file to include them.

[cooldude7273]

Ummm, sure! Of course I can!

(If I knew how.)

[cooldude7273]

I'm just gonna do a clean install!

Thanks for your help! :)