From Mandriva 2005 LE to 2006 Free

Hi Guys, yesterday I have decided to upgrade my 2005 LE to 2006 Free.
I had some problem but now all the system seems to be stable.

Get urpmi's repositories of Mandriva 2006 Free Edition, as usual, from http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/.

Before you do anything reads this note Mandriva 2006.0 release notes.

update your urpmi database, and then type:

urpmi --auto-select

I suggest you to use the option "--test" before the main upgrade to check if there are dependencies' problems.

1. Upgrade your kernel
2. Upgrade the system
3. If you use gnome, reinstall gnome-panel.

At this point you Xorg will not have 3D, you can enable it following this process:

1. Install the kernel-source package
2. Get the ATI Driver Installer
3. Run ATI Driver Installer as root, choosing:
• Generate Distribution Specific Driver Package
• Agree to the license
• Mandriva Packages->Mandriva/2006 ( Note: mayby you need some develop package, chk the log file: /usr/share/fglrx/fglrx-install.log. You can Uninstall the driver with :/usr/share/fglrx/fglrx-uninstall.sh )
4. Install from root all the rpm created using urpmi: ati-8.20.8-1mdk.i586.rpm, ati-devel-8.20.8-1mdk.i586.rpm, dkms-ati-8.20.8-1mdk.i586.rpm
   
5. Open the hardware configuration manager and select your video card. Take a look to the image for the settings
   















6. Restart X

OpenOffice:

Urpmi --auto-select has installed OpenOffice 1.1.5 but Mandriva has the version 2.0, the package name is: openoffice.org-go-ooo

Note: Some days ago I installed the SUN's JRE, yesterday after the upgrade I had problem running OO with JRE installed, OO sucked all my cpu. I have removed JRE and now all is ok


That's all for now.

RJP