Failed upgrade from 8.7 to 9.X

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Getting lots of gpg errors (sample below). while trying to upgrade from 8.7.
<Can’t include links and full output with links because this system limits me to two links only since I’m new… that’s not helpful, to say the least>

$ wget link to RPM-GPG-KEY-AlmaLinux-9
$ gpg --import RPM-GPG-KEY-AlmaLinux
gpg: key D36CB86CB86B3716: "AlmaLinux OS 9 " not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: unchanged: 1

Have the following:

AlmaLinux 9 - BaseOS 3.3 MB/s | 3.4 kB 00:00
Importing GPG key 0xC21AD6EA:
Userid : “AlmaLinux packager@almalinux.org”
Fingerprint: E53C F5EF 91CE B0AD 1812 ECB8 51D6 647E C21A D6EA
From : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-AlmaLinux
Key imported successfully
Import of key(s) didn’t help, wrong key(s)?
AlmaLinux 9 - AppStream 3.1 MB/s | 3.4 kB 00:00
Importing GPG key 0xC21AD6EA:
Userid : “AlmaLinux packager@almalinux.org”
Fingerprint: E53C F5EF 91CE B0AD 1812 ECB8 51D6 647E C21A D6EA
From : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-AlmaLinux
Key imported successfully
Import of key(s) didn’t help, wrong key(s)?

Error:

Public key for xdg-utils-1.1.3-11.el9.noarch.rpm is not installed. Failing package is: xdg-utils-1.1.3-11.el9.noarch

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How are you doing the upgrade? As far as I’m aware there’s no upgrade path from Alma 8 to Alma 9 yet (I suspect / hope Elevate will be able to do the upgrade at some point but it’s not there yet).

Without more information it’s difficult to help with errors like this.

3

there is a 8>9 elevate in test, worked fine for me, but it is still in testing: