Upgrade Fedora Core 4/Scalix 10 to Core 5/Scalix 11

[graham1871]

Hi,

I am trying to upgrade a live installation of Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 5.
The reason being to upgrade Scalix Server 10 to 11.
I understand version 11 isn't supported on Fedora Core 4?

When upgrading Fedora

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yum -y upgrade


it fails:

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Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.5 is needed by package scalix-server
Error: Missing Dependency: libssl.so.5 is needed by package scalix-server


The problem I have is exactly as described here:
viewtopic.php?t=3392

This topic says that upgrade from 10 to 11 isn't supported - but I guess that's just because that was for a beta version!

I have tried finding a guide to this upgrade process on the forums but failed. Can someone point me in the first direction or help out?
Thanks

[graham1871]

Might be bad form to reply to my own message.... but....

1) Uninstall Scalix 10 (rpm --erase ?)?
2) Upgrade to FC5 (yum -y upgrade)?
3) Install Scalix 11?

Is this safe? (on a live server)
Will it retain all user settings and data?
Will all the Scalix 10 data be automatically converted during the install of 11?

Problem is that this is on a server in a hosting centre (many miles away!) and I suddenly need to do this due to the "timebomb" in the Outlook connector.
See: viewtopic.php?t=8036

Clients have downloaded and are using the version 11 connector on a version 10 server. This timebomb which has suddenly happened seems to leave me with no choice but to upgrade immediately.

I can't find suitable documents for this -
Has anyone had experience of the same upgrade?

Thanks

[MrCyrix]

have a look at this post it may be helpful, apparently you need to uninstall scalix 10 before the upgrade to fedora 5

viewtopic.php?t=5948

[graham1871]

Thanks for the pointer.

Ran through this as described and all worked fine.

You do need to remove Scalix first.
I ran

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rpm -qa | grep scalix

and then an rpm --erase on the listed components

This would enable the upgrade from FC4 to FC5 to work correctly (unless you have other software you may also need to remove)

Then do a fresh install of Scalix 11 - it automatically picks up the old data.