Re: Updating old software on FC3

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Author: Anthony Boynes
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Updating old software on FC3
I would take a look here:

http://fedoralegacy.org/updates/

Mike wrote:
> I've finally got around to playing with my old laptop which has FC3
> installed as the distro. I wanted to get started on updating software so
> the faq on fedora's site said to do the following.
>
> http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
>
> cd /etc
> mv -f yum.conf yum.conf.bak
> wget http://www.fedorafaq.org/samples/yum.conf
>
> that worked fine.
> then it said to install the yum configuration:
>
> rpm -Uvh http://www.fedorafaq.org/yum
> http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm
>
> this resulted in an error:
>
> Retrieving http://www.fedorafaq.org/yum
> Retrieving http://rpm.livna.org/livana-release-5.rpm
> error: skipping http://rpm.livna.org/livana-release-5.rpm - transfer
> failed - Unknown or unexpected error
>
> Any thoughts on how I should go about updating my software for this old
> distro? I guess I could download the latest version and reinstall but
> this computer runs fine with FC3. Heck I don't even really ~have~ to
> update the software, I just want to do something with it to get back
> into practice.
>
> Mike Hoy
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