Tuesday, May 25, 2010

How to Upgrade from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 (32 bit and 64 bit versions)


Do the following as root.

download latest fedora repos

For 32 bit version type:

wget ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-13-1.noarch.rpm

or for 64 bit version type:

wget ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/fedora-release-13-1.noarch.rpm

import gpg-key

rpm --import ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/i386/os/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386

or for 64 bit version type:

rpm --import ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/x86_64/os/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386

install rpmlibs dependency. Required to install fedora-release-13

yum install rpm-libs -y

upgrade fedora release

rpm -Uvh fedora-release-13-1.noarch.rpm

upgrade fedora distro

yum upgrade -y

Reboot and Enjoy