Re: Error when running Yum

I can't update that way because this is a remote server.

It looks like using yum to update up to RH9 isn't too difficult, and
then from RH9 to Fedora is about equally challenging.

I have rpm 4.1.1 and I yum 2.0 is installed.  Python is 2.1.

On 7/29/07, seth vidal <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 21:21 -0500, Tim Dotson wrote:
> > I had an older version of Python (1.3 or 1.4 or something).  I figured
> > that was the problem, so I updated to 2.0 but am still getting the
> > same error.
> >
> > Trying to install a higher version of Python on my system gives an
> > error about libc.so.6 not being installed, even though it is.
> >
> > I believe this is RH 7.3.  It's about 5 years old in any case.  I'd
> > like to use Yum to get the system up to date.
> >
>
> What version of yum are you trying to use?
>
> Also the best way to upgrade a rh 7.3 box is to back it up and reinstall
> it. It's a long haul from 7.3 to anything reasonably current and the
> kernel changes alone will make it a very painful process. Seriously,
> upgrading a 7.3 box would work something like this:
>
> 7.3-> centos3/rhel3/fc1
> centos3/rhel3/fc1 -> centos4/rhel4/fc3
> centos4/rhel4/fc3 -> centos5/rhel5/fc6
> fc6->Fedora7
>
> a whole world of no-fun to do that.
>
> -sv
>
>
>
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