Upgrade your FC4 box to the latest Gnome 2.12 desktop
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Written by Anze Vidmar on 2005-09-18
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Upgrading instructions for Gnome 2.12 desktop
This is a very rare question this days, "how do I upgrade my Fedora Core 4 box to the latest Gnome 2.12 (http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/notes/en/rnusers.html) desktop?". Well, since I also had the same question and now I'm already running it, I'll show you a quick way to accomplish this.
But be aware... This is not the tested solution from Fedora team (the RPMS are from nrpms.net team), so upgrade only if you're desperate for the latest Gnome version or if you just like to live on the edge ;-) No one guarantees that it will work for you. Use it at your own risk. You were warned.
Requirements for upgrade
At this time of writing only nrpms repository (http://www.nrpms.net) has the Gnome 2.12 RPMS for FC4. So, all you need to have is yum configured to use nrpms repository.
Configuring yum
Make sure you create a nrpms.repo file in your /etc/yum.repos.d/ folder and copy/paste nrpms data in, as shown below:
[nr-production] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - nrpms.net/production #baseurl=http://yum.nrpms.net/fedora-$releasever-$basearch/production/ mirrorlist=http://yum.nrpms.net/fedora-$releasever-$basearch/production/mirrors-nrpms enabled=1 gpgcheck=0
Note that if you allready have this repository configured, you can skip this step.
At this point you are ready to do some hard-core upgrading.
Updating time!
Cross your fingers and type as root
yum update
If everything is ok your yum updater should show you about 140 updates. Don't get scared now, this are all the packages that needs to be upgraded in order for Gnome 2.12 to run.
VERY IMPORTANT
After the upgrade is complete, it's VERY important to clean your old Gnome 2.10 config and cache files before you fire up Gnome 2.12 for the first time, otherwise you might be very well disapoointed. Keep in mind that in order to delete everything from your /tmp folder, you need to be running your box in runlevel 3, that means no X! So login as root and type in the console:
init 3
Wait until the machines reaches runlevel 3.
After that, login into the console as root and make sure you delete all the temporary files from /tmp folder and all your Gnome 2.10 config files from your profile. This includes the folders:
In your local profile:
.gconf .gconfd .gnome .gnome2 .gnome2_private .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 .nautilus
And everything in /tmp folder:
rm -rf /tmp/*
After the "big-cleaning", reboot your box and enjoy the ride ;-)
Conclusion
The latest Gnome 2.12 desktop really impressed me! It's so much faster than 2.10 version and it has some new very useful utils for both - users and sysadmins. I'm running it for a few days now and haven't experienced a single problem.
Have fun with it :-)
Getting help
If you are having troubles with upgrades, please see THIS (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=78630) link bellow, for additional help and support from Fedoraforum.org (http://www.fedoraforum.org/).
