Live upgrades are not recommended for production box. Backup your system and data before attempting anything mentioned below
New pulseaudio and flash packages must be installed manually:
Code:
yum groupinstall sound-and-video (if you are using Gnome)
yum install kde-settings-pulseaudio (if you are using KDE)
yum install libflashsupport
The Fedora 7 avahi packagage fails to uninstall; remove it manually with
Code:
rpm -e --noscripts avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7
On 64 bit machines (x86_64) you may have to remove some 32 bit libraries. For example dbus:
Code:
yum erase dbus.i386
You may find it easier to use the yum shell to stack these commands in a single transaction:
Code:
yum shell
> erase dbus.i386
> update
> run
A lot of KDE packages are no longer multilib in F8. If you are on x86_64, you will need to erase the i386 versions of these packages by hand, like so:
Code:
yum erase kde{accessibility{,-devel},base,edu,graphics,multimedia{,-extras},network,sdk,utils{,-devel},webdev}.i386
Various other packages including Beryl are no longer in F8 and not obsoleted:
Source:
YumUpgradeFaq - Fedora Project Wiki