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The repositories for SME 8 have not been enabled. You can't update with yum for now.+
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====Yum====
====Yum====
−=====Setting up your SME Server 8 repository=====
+Setup with the following yum repositories...
+ /sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set sme8os repository \
+ Name 'SME Server 8 - smeos' \
+ BaseURL 'http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/testing/8/smeos/i386/' \
+ EnableGroups yes \
+ GPGCheck no \
+ Visible yes \
+ status enabled
+Expand your yum.conf...
+ expand-template /etc/yum.conf
+=====SME Server 7.3=====
+{{Note box|You are advised to only upgrade clean machines, e.g. without contribs or other modifications.}}
+If you are running a fresh installation of SME Server 7.3 your upgrade should run problem free, if not please file a bug here.
+You can upgrade your clean SME Server 7.3 server by following these steps:
+<ol></li><li>Install the necessary packages from the sme8os repository:
+ yum upgrade --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=sme8os
+</li><li>Once completed issue
+ signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot
+</li></ol>
+=====SME Server 7.0, 7.1.x or 7.2=====
+{{Note box|You are advised to only upgrade clean machines, e.g. without contribs or other modifications.}}
+If you are trying to upgrade from a 7.0, 7.1.x or 7.2 server upgrading yum will fail with the following error:
+ --> Running transaction check
+ --> Processing Dependency: libstartup-notification-1.so.0 for package: libwnck
+ --> Processing Dependency: yum-metadata-parser for package: yum
+ --> Processing Dependency: startup-notification >= 0.5 for package: libwnck
+ --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
+ --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
+ ---> Downloading header for startup-notification to pack into transaction set.
+ startup-notification-0.8- 100% |=========================| 5.0 kB 00:00
+ ---> Package startup-notification.i386 0:0.8-4.1 set to be updated
+ --> Running transaction check
+ --> Processing Dependency: yum-metadata-parser for package: yum
+ --> Finished Dependency Resolution
+ Error: Missing Dependency: yum-metadata-parser is needed by package yum
+ ================================================================
+ No new rpms were installed. No additional commands are required.
+ ================================================================
+ [root@example ~]#
+You can solve this using the following steps:
+<ol></li><li>You will need to download the yum-metadata-parser package from the SME Server 7.3 repository:
+ wget <nowiki>http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/7.3/smeos/i386/SME/RPMS/yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.el4.centos.i386.rpm</nowiki>
+</li><li>Manually install the package as below:
+ rpm -Uvh --oldpackage yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.el4.centos.i386.rpm
+</li><li>Then type from command line:
+ yum clean all
+</li><li>After that you should be able to upgrade with the following command:
+ yum upgrade --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=sme8os
+</li><li>Once completed issue
+ signal-event post-upgrade;signal-event reboot
+</li></ol>
===Problems and bugs===
===Problems and bugs===
