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F15: Upgrade from Fedora 14 to 15 on home-built Linux Desktop 2

I simply used preupgrade, as in §6.3.10. The only delay was when it asked me to delete unused kernels in /boot to make enough space for the new stuff--nice!

Most of my issues had to do with getting everything (particular music/audio stuff) going on a 64-bit Linux system for the first time. In particular, lots of paths needed to be changed from /usr/lib to /usr/lib64/ here and there. In my opinion, wordlengths should not be encoded into directory names. Let each .o file identify its architecture (as I believe they already do), and let loaders print error messages if they can't find the architecture they need.

F15 Issues (mid-July 2011):

``Problems'':

> package-cleanup --problems
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Package libpanelappletmm-2.26.0-2.fc12.x86_64 requires libpanel-applet-2.so.0()(64bit)
# yum remove libpanelappletmm

``Orphans'':

> package-cleanup --orphans
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
amsynth-1.2.2-1.fc12.ccrma.x86_64
brhl2170wlpr-2.0.2-1.i386
cupswrapperHL2170W-2.0.2-1.i386
eggdbus-0.6-2.fc13.i686
eggdbus-0.6-2.fc13.x86_64
fox-1.6.30-1.fc12.ccrma.x86_64
ifd-egate-0.05-22.x86_64
kernel-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64
kernel-2.6.35.13-92.fc14.x86_64
kernel-devel-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64
kernel-devel-2.6.35.13-92.fc14.x86_64
libnc-dap-3.7.4-3.fc14.x86_64
pam_smb-1.1.7-11.fc12.x86_64
phat-0.4.1-1.fc14.ccrma.x86_64
rezound-0.12.3beta-1.fc12.ccrma.x86_64
specimen-0.5.2-0.1.rc3.fc14.ccrma.x86_64
supercollider-beastmulchplugins-0.0-0.2.fc14.ccrma.x86_64
supercollider-beastmulchplugins-debuginfo-0.0-0.2.fc14.ccrma.x86_64

# yum remove kernel-2.6.35*
# yum remove kernel-devel-2.6.35*
[others kept to remind me about them]

Things done afterwards:


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