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As I mentioned a couple of days ago, Fedora 18 has been released<\/a>. \u00a0And since now I have a somewhat flagman role for quite a few Fedora users around me, I took the courageous step of upgrading my personal laptop from Fedora 17 to 18. \u00a0More or less it went smooth. \u00a0 Here are the notes for things that broke:<\/p>\n

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  1. As mentioned in the previous post, you should use “fedup –network 18<\/strong>” instead of “preupgrade<\/em>“. \u00a0 This is my preferred way of upgrading, since I can still use the computer while the download and good chunk of the upgrade are being done.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Broken KDE<\/strong>. \u00a0Upon the first boot I got as far as the graphical login prompt. \u00a0Upon entering the username and password, and selecting KDE as the preferred session, I’d get a KDE loader screen for a bit, then a few screen spasms, a black console, and eventually an automatic reset back to the graphical login prompt. \u00a0That was ugly! \u00a0 I tried it a few times, but it was behaving consistently. \u00a0Gnome however worked just fine. \u00a0All I had to do to sort this out was install updates. \u00a0But, there was a minor issue with that too – see the next one.<\/li>\n
  3. No updates<\/strong>. \u00a0Running “yum update” was consistently telling me that I have no updates to install. \u00a0I found that difficult to believe, since I know for a fact that updates are available for Linux distributions pretty much the moment a new version is released. \u00a0Solution to the problem is a reset of yum cache, by using “yum clean all”. \u00a0Once that is done “yum update” will bring the usual megabytes of updates. \u00a0KDE bits and pieces are in there too. \u00a0Which sorted out the previous option.<\/li>\n
  4. Google Chrome won’t start<\/strong>, spitting out an error of some missing library. \u00a0That looked weird. \u00a0Gladly, the solution<\/a> is easy, and finding one is a single Google search away. \u00a0Simply re-install the RPM and all will be back to normal.<\/li>\n
  5. Git branch information in bash prompt was no more<\/strong>. \u00a0Luckily, that was covered in the Release Notes<\/a>. \u00a0A necessary shell file has been moved from one location to another, so .bashrc should be updated.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So, is there anything good in this version that would counter the above issues? \u00a0I don’t know, honestly, I haven’t been using it long enough yet. \u00a0The things that I’ve noticed are:<\/p>\n