Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Fedora-14”
Preupgrade Fedora 14 to Fedora 15
Just used preupgrade to go from Fedora 14 to 15. The entire process took about 3 hours. That’s not too shabby! In the old days of disc upgrades it had to go for days. Yum upgrade often had to work overnight. This one was much faster! After the upgrade, I had to turn off my dropbox repo - apparently they don’t have a Fedora 15 repo turned on yet. That allowed me to run yum distro-sync which bought me up to more or less at least what’s in Fedora 15. Otherwise you’re just upgrading your packages, but you may be missing some new ones that were added in. That’s what messed me up on the last upgrade. I still have to work on the rpmnew thing to get my config files as close to what they should be as possible and I have to figure out if the orphan packages I have installed are programs I should get rid of to make sure they don’t potentially cause problems in the future. KDE is working just as good as before. GDM looks very different - very similar to Gnome 3 and Gnome Shell. I’ll have to sneak in there later on in the week and try Gnome Shell out. Sound works and everything else works. (I only use an Ethernet connection so it’s not too complicated of a situation)
KDE 4 Look Part 2: Amarok 2.3.2 in KDE 4.5 and Fedora 14
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There was a time when I thought Amarok was the best music player on Linux. I even used to run it in Gnome as you can see from this 2005 screenshot. In that first link you can read me gushing over Amarok 1.4. I loved all the integrated technologies, especially the metadata juggling Amarok did. The first few Amarok 2.x releases with the KDE 4 libraries were complete crap. They were ugly and were missing nearly all of Amarok’s features. (Mirroring the complaints people were having about KDE 4 at the time) When I took a look at Amarok and KDE 4.4 in October I said I would take another look at Amarok.
Quick update on my upgrade to Fedora 14
The Gnome panel was acting a little buggy and I was going to report that, but I decided that instead I could load up KDE. I’d been wanting to check it out a little more ever since I took a look in October. But I was unable to open Kontact because akonadi was being annoying. Turns out that the version of akonadi I had installed from Fedora 13 was technically a higher version than the one with Fedora 14. I ran most of the commands on this page after getting the link as advice from fenris in the Fedora freenode IRC room. The most important one was the ??yum distribution-synchronization which fixed that akonadi problem. Kontact now loads up. It’s acting a bit funny with my gmail messages, but I’m sure that can be fixed. So I’m going to have to get back into Gnome to see if the panels are behaving a bit better now. After all, I ended up installing about half a gig of updates tonight as a result of the instructions on that page. This is why, folks, everyone always recommends just going for a fresh install. Upgrades always require a bit more work.
Upgraded to Fedora 14
I just did a preupgrade upgrade from Fedora 13 to Fedora 14. The only hitch is that it didn’t find enough space to download the installer ahead of time so that had to be downloaded after the the reboot. Everything went off without a hitch. My absolute cleanest upgrade ever. Dual screen worked, nothing had to be uninstalled. None of the repos had to be disabled. All my usual programs work. I haven’t tried Blender yet, that’s tomorrow. The first thing I noticed was that the OpenOffice.org icons have changed again. This is the third time, I think,since I’ve been using Linux.
Fedora 14 Installation Process
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It’s been a more than a year since I last had to install Fedora from scratch. I’m installing Fedora 14 into Virtualbox for an upcoming blog post where I wanted to do some stuff I wasn’t quite sure I was ready to do on my main box, so I thought I’d go ahead and blog about the installation. The default artwork is very dynamic and conveys a sense that this is an exciting release.
Fedora 14 Out Today!
Fedora 14 is out today! You can get it from the newly redesigned website. Expect more from me as I explore it. Probably in a couple weeks as I’m extremely busy right now.