How to Upgarde GNOME2.20 to GNOME2.22

[kumarkrishnan]

Hi,
I am new to Linux and I got PC with Fedora8 core. Kindly brief me how to upgrade GNOME2.20 to 2.22? Also, let me know whether DVD comes with KDE installer? How to install it?
With Thanks and best Regards,
K. Kumar

[leigh123linux]

I don't consider it possible to upgrade Gnome on F8 due to deps .
I you want the latest Gnome wait for F9 !!



If you doubt this fact try this ( don't commit to this update )

su
yum --enablerepo=development groupupdate "GNOME Desktop Environment"

[kumarkrishnan]

Thanks for your reply. I had tried with terminal logged in as root. It was not installeded. Since, I am new to linux, I could not able to understand the message given by it.

With Thanks,
Kumar Krishnan

[kumarkrishnan]

Thanks for your reply. I had tried with terminal logged in as root. It was not installeded. Since, I am new to linux, I could not able to understand the message given by it.

Please provide me some other options.

With Thanks,
Kumar Krishnan

As Leigh said, you will have to wait till Fedora 9. It is not possible to upgrade one version of Gnome to the next as there are too many dependencies involved and many things will break and you'll be left with a non-functioning system.

Wayne

best way is to wait for F9 your gonna have way to many problems upgrading from F8 to F9 ..make a new Home Dir/Partition an transfer your most wanted F8 data to F9 partition

[starstatras]

whys that? I had no problems updating from f7 o f8?
does that mean im going to have major problems this time?

Originally Posted by starstatras

whys that? I had no problems updating from f7 o f8?
does that mean im going to have major problems this time?

The OP is not talking about upgrading from one version of Fedora to another (which is also not recommended but YMMV) but upgrading from one version of Gnome to the next in the same Fedora release, which one of the developers has said a couple of times in the past would break

Personally, I've always gone for the clean install method of any distro rather than upgrade. I'd rather spend an hour getting everything set-up than spend two or more fixing things that might break

Wayne

[kumarkrishnan]

Thanks for all your suggestion. I will wait for Fedora 9, just 19 days only.

With Thanks,
KumarKrishnan

Originally Posted by kumarkrishnan

Thanks for all your suggestion. I will wait for Fedora 9, just 19 days only.

With Thanks,
KumarKrishnan

download the Release candidate an update to final from that, i cant see any problem with that now thta they have the Pre-Upgrade thing in Fedora now