Fedora: how to go from XFree86 to xorg?

Tim Wunder tim
Mon May 17 12:02:20 PDT 2004


On Sunday 16 May 2004 6:30 am, someone claiming to be Tim Wunder wrote:
> On Saturday 15 May 2004 11:44 am, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> > Since i'm terminally impatient I installed Fedora Core 2-test-1 last
> > night (yes i know test 3 exists, and the final version is due out next
> > week).
> >
> > Test 1 came with XFree86, but it looks like the fedora people switched
> > over to the X.org stuff sometime afterwards.  Is there a safe way to
> > upgrade (rpm -Uvh) or am i basically screwed?
>
> You might be able to update via yum, or apt, if you set up the right
> repository.
> Check http://fedoranews.org/ghenry/apt-fc2/ for a potential repository
> (that's an upgrade from RC1 to FC2 test 1 from which you might extrapolate
> an answer.
>
> Now how "safe" that might be, who knows?
>
> 

Also, google on "upgrade fedora core test" for a couple decent leads that 
might help you (if you haven't tried that already...).


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