Description of problem: Unable to upgrade Fedore. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/DE7F38BD.txt 2. yum update yum 3. yum clean all 4. yum --releasever=18 --disableplugin=presto distro-sync Actual results: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/myspell/en_US.dic from install of hunspell-en-0.20110318-6.fc18.noarch conflicts with file from package hunspell-en-US-0.20110318-8.fc17.noarch file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/__init__.py from install of python-ipython-console-0.13-4.fc18.noarch conflicts with file from package ipython-0.12-3.fc17.noarch file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/config/__init__.py from install of python-ipython-console-0.13-4.fc18.noarch conflicts with file from package ipython-0.12-3.fc17.noarch Expected results: Additional info:
It is not a supported way of upgrading to new fedora release It can be done http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum But you have to be able solve problem with packages there is incompatible. This is not yum's problem Try to delete the conflicting packages before updating, if you can
Hi, steps from 1-4 are taken from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum. Just for your information list of conflicting packages includes: firefox, eclipse, gnome-shell, control-center ...
There is nothing the yum developers can do about it. Add this procedure is not supported by the Fedora Project, so you are on you own Sorry.