Thanks for posting these instructions - I have followed up to the yum upgrade stage, but it fails on some dependencies for mplayer:

Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdnavmini.so.4 is needed by package mplayer
Error: Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) is needed by package mplayer

There seems to be a problem with the freshrpms repositories at the moment, as I can't contact them:

http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout:
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: freshrpms. Please verify its path and try again

Not sure if that is causing the problem? I have tried to manually install mplayer and also to use the livna repositories, all with no luck. I have tried to manually install pulse as instructed on the YumUpgradeFaq page, doing

yum groupinstall sound-and-video
yum install libflashsupport paman padevchooser

(I didn't install gnome-desktop as I'm not using it, so don't want all the extras.)

After this, I do have the pulse lib:

ls *pulse*
libpulse-browse.so.0
libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0.0.2
libpulse-browse.so.0.1.0
libpulse-simple.so.0
libpulsecore.so.4
libpulse-simple.so.0.0.0
libpulsecore.so.4.0.0
libpulse.so.0
libpulsedsp.so
libpulse.so.0.3.0
libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0

But still get the dependency failure.

yum repolist gives:

Loading "kmdl" plugin
Repository updates is listed more than once in the configuration
repo id repo name status
atrpms Fedora Core 8 - i386 - ATrpms enabled
dribble Dribble for Fedora 8 - i386 enabled
fedora Fedora 8 - i386 enabled

Any ideas on this? Are freshrpms needed - it seems to be pretty dead at the moment....

Thanks

Mat.

Just wanted to say thanks for publishing these. I was able to upgrade using your instructions, plus a couple more 'rpm -e --nodeps' commands. Basically, whenever yum barked at me about a conflict, I simply removed the conflicting package. 8^)

Funny -- and so true. My wife even got a chuckle out of that.

Ok, so I took the plunge and not being sure how to edit the repos correctly am stuck with "cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core" after doing a yum update rpm\* yum \*

Any help appreciated, or do I just get the MD4 disk back out ?

Regards to all

S02

You need to upgrade the repos in together since they required each other.

i.e.
# rpm -Uvh http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3.noarch.rpm

OR this will get both at once:

rpm -Uhv ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-*.noarch.rpm

Perhaps you're assuming that if you can't figure that out (and editing the repo to point to F8) then you shouldn't be doing it?

I'm building my house now :)