minimally installed F9 system. yum install preupgrade. run preupgrade Fail: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 19, in <module> import gtk Cheat and just install system-config-netboot to get these things (and who knows what else), so next: Fail: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 26, in <module> import preupgrade File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 27, in <module> import xf86config ImportError: No module named xf86config Install pyxf86config.x86_64 At this point its just pissed that it has no fonts, but at least it "sorta" starts.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 457803 ***