there was a problem with fedup-0.7<\/a> and that I could either upgrade it from a testing repository to fedup-0.8, or I could go with the good old yum-based upgrade. \u00a0Since I always seem to have troubles with fedup, I decided to opt for the yum way. \u00a0Here is all I had to do:<\/p>\n\r\n# You can pick any other Fedora 20 mirror here\r\nrpm -Uvh\u00a0http:\/\/mirror.easyspeedy.com\/fedora\/releases\/20\/Fedora\/i386\/os\/Packages\/f\/fedora-release-20-1.noarch.rpm\r\nyum update --skip-broken\r\n<\/pre>\nThat meant that all the packages had to be downloaded again – there is probably a way to move them from the fedup folders to yum, but I didn’t care enough to find out. \u00a0But once the yum was finished and I rebooted – all was done. \u00a0The system is up and running and so far everything is good.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
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