Upgrade FC6 to Fedora 7

As of May 31st, Fedora 7 is available. Even though the project has dropped ‘Core’ from its name, strangely enough the package names still include ‘fc7’. To upgrade from FC6, you can follow these instructions:

1. Make sure your system is up-to-date, and do a yum clean all for a little housekeeping.
2. Install fedora release information as follows:

rpm -Uvh ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-7-3.noarch.rpm ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-notes-7.0.0-1.noarch.rpm

3. If you have yumex installed, open it. Yumex will gather new package information, install/remove, resolve dependencies, etc. Otherwise, initiate yum -y update from the command line. When performing the upgrade process on my server, it retrieved 2171 packages — about 1.2 gigs. There was a failed dependency with totem, so I removed it because I won’t be using totem on a server.