Upgrade Fedora Core 3 kernel using RPM packages.

Objective :-

● Manually upgrade fedora core kernel using rpm package

● To upgrade the package currently installed to a new version.

ability :-

● able to query information about currently installed package.

● able to verify the new package version.

● able to upgrade rpm package to new version.

tools :-

rpm {-U--upgrade} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE ...

   This upgrades or installs the package currently installed to a newer version. This is the same as install, except all other version(s) of the package are removed after the new package is installed.

Procedures to upgrade kernel using rpm packages:-

1. Check the current kernel version with this command.

[root@linux rpm]# uname -a

Linux linux.jmtibm.com 2.6.9-1.667 #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

2. Change to directory that contains your rpm (download) package.

[root@linux ‾]# cd rpm/

3. List the directory contents

[root@linux rpm]# ls

kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.i686.rpm

kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.49_FC3.i386.rpm

policycoreutils-1.18.1-2.12.i386.rpm

selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.96.noarch.rpm

selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.96.noarch.rpm

udev-039-10.FC3.7.i386.rpm

4. Check the rpm version that already installed, in this example 'kernel'

[root@linux rpm]# rpm -qi kernel

Name : kernel Relocations: (not relocatable)

Version : 2.6.9 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.

Release : 1.667 Build Date: Wed 03 Nov 2004 04:24:55 AM MYT

Install Date: Thu 05 May 2005 01:03:41 PM MYT Build Host: tweety.build.redhat.com

Group : System Environment/Kernel Source RPM: kernel-2.6.9-1.667.src.rpm

Size : 43753461 License: GPLv2

Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed 03 Nov 2004 05:06:30 AM MYT, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2Packager : Red Hat, Inc.

Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system).

Description :

The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of the Red Hat Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc.

-q for Query

-i info

Display package information, including name, version, and description. This uses the --queryformat if one was specified.

5. Base on the query information of the Kernel package that already install in this computer is 2.6.9-1.667 and the new package that already been download is kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.i686.rpm

6. List rpm package in the directory...

[root@linux rpm]# ls

kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.i686.rpm selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.96.noarch.rpm kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.49_FC3.i386.rpm selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.96.noarch.rpm policycoreutils-1.18.1-2.12.i386.rpm udev-039-10.FC3.7.i386.rpm

7. Ugrade the kernel with this rpm command

[root@linux rpm]# rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.i686.rpm

warning: kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.i686.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2

error: Failed dependencies:

udev >= 039-10.FC3.7 is needed by kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.i686

selinux-policy-targeted <>= 1.18.1-2.8 is needed by selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.96.noarch

selinux-policy-targeted = 1.17.30-2.19 is needed by (installed) selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.19.noarch

8. Same as before the dependencies fail again ... add more package ones more times...

[root@linux rpm]# rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.i686.rpm udev-039-10.FC3.7.i386.rpm selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.96.noarch.rpm policycoreutils-1.18.1-2.12.i386.rpm

warning: kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.i686.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2

error: Failed dependencies:

selinux-policy-targeted = 1.17.30-2.19 is needed by (installed) selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.19.noarch

9. And again... but now we meet all the dependencies require to install the new kernel package.

[root@linux rpm]# rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.i686.rpm udev-039-10.FC3.7.i386.rpm selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.96.noarch.rpm policycoreutils-1.18.1-2.12.i386.rpm selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.96.noarch.rpm

warning: kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.i686.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2

Preparing... ########################################### [100%]

1:policycoreutils ########################################### [ 20%]

2:udev ########################################### [ 40%]

3:kernel ########################################### [ 60%]

4:selinux-policy-targetedwarning: /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts created as /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.rpmnew

########################################### [ 80%]

warning: /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.18 created as /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.18.rpmnew

5:selinux-policy-targeted########################################### [100%]

[root@linux rpm]#

10. Now all the hard work done... reboot your PC and ...

11. After reboot make sure to check the version of the new kernel. If there is no change to the kernel version, your upgrade may be failed. in this example, the upgrading process is successful base on the version change to new version.

[root@linux ‾]# uname -a

Linux linux.jmtibm.com 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 #1 Thu Apr 7 19:23:49 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[root@linux ‾]# rpm -qi kernel

Name : kernel Relocations: (not relocatable)

Version : 2.6.11 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.

Release : 1.14_FC3 Build Date: Fri 08 Apr 2005 07:55:04 AM MYT

Install Date: Tue 31 May 2005 05:33:09 PM MYT Build Host: bugs.build.redhat.com

Group : System Environment/Kernel Source RPM: kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.src.rpm

Size : 49036749 License: GPLv2

Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue 12 Apr 2005 04:19:16 AM MYT, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2

Packager : Red Hat, Inc.

Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system).

Description :

The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of the Red Hat Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc.

[kambing@linux ‾]# id

uid=501(kambing) gid=501(kambing) groups=501(kambing)

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