Re: Updating old software on FC3

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Author: Craig White
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Subject: Re: Updating old software on FC3
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Craig

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 08:30 -0700, Anthony Boynes wrote:
> 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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