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Upgrade Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 using YUM

Fedora 13 is due in less than 2 weeks (as of today) but I decided not to wait any longer and upgrade my existing Fedora 12  x86_64 installation. The following describes what you need to do to upgrade to Fedora 13 using yum. First, you need to upgrade these 2 packages: fedora-release-12-2.noarch fedora-release-notes-12.0.2-1.fc12.noarch Enabling the [...]

YUM repo errors

There are several things that can cause the $SUBJECT. Some errors occur due to incorrect URL entries in /etc/yum.conf or broken repository files, while others are the result of using a faulty plugin or a bad proxy server setting. However, most common errors come from the use of the (default) caching function. Called http_caching, this [...]

Fedora 11 Alpha YUM issues

There are quite a few Fedora 11 Alpha / Rawhide users complaining about not being able to perform a system update. Both YUM and PackageKit fail trying to download repomd.xml. I found different solutions for this, but none of them seemed to work for me. I was able to get it fixed in a different [...]