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====Yum====
 
====Yum====
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=====Setting up your SME Server 8 repository=====
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The repositories for SME 8 have not been enabled. You can't update with yum for now.
Setup with the following yum repositories...
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/sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set sme8os repository \
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Name 'SME Server 8 - smeos' \
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BaseURL 'http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/testing/8/smeos/i386/' \
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EnableGroups yes \
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GPGCheck no \
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Visible yes \
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status enabled
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Expand your yum.conf...
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expand-template /etc/yum.conf
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=====SME Server 7.3=====
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{{Note box|You are advised to only upgrade clean machines, e.g. without contribs or other modifications.}}
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If you are running a fresh installation of SME Server 7.3 your upgrade should run problem free, if not please {{BugzillaFileBug|product=SME%20Server%20Release%208.X|component=|comment=|summary=|title=file a bug here}}.
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You can upgrade your clean SME Server 7.3 server by following these steps:
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<ol></li><li>Install the necessary packages from the sme8os repository:
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yum upgrade --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=sme8os
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</li><li>Once completed issue
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signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot
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</li></ol>
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=====SME Server 7.0, 7.1.x or 7.2=====
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{{Note box|You are advised to only upgrade clean machines, e.g. without contribs or other modifications.}}
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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:
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--> Running transaction check
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--> Processing Dependency: libstartup-notification-1.so.0 for package: libwnck
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--> Processing Dependency: yum-metadata-parser for package: yum
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--> Processing Dependency: startup-notification >= 0.5 for package: libwnck
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--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
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--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
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---> Downloading header for startup-notification to pack into transaction set.
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startup-notification-0.8- 100% |=========================| 5.0 kB    00:00
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---> Package startup-notification.i386 0:0.8-4.1 set to be updated
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--> Running transaction check
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--> Processing Dependency: yum-metadata-parser for package: yum
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--> Finished Dependency Resolution
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Error: Missing Dependency: yum-metadata-parser is needed by package yum
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================================================================
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No new rpms were installed. No additional commands are required.
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[root@example ~]#
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You can solve this using the following steps:
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<ol></li><li>You will need to download the yum-metadata-parser package from the SME Server 7.3 repository:
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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>
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</li><li>Manually install the package as below:
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rpm -Uvh --oldpackage yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.el4.centos.i386.rpm
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</li><li>Then type from command line:
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yum clean all
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</li><li>After that you should be able to upgrade with the following command:
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yum upgrade --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=sme8os
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</li><li>Once completed issue
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signal-event post-upgrade;signal-event reboot
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</li></ol>
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===Problems and bugs===
 
===Problems and bugs===

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