Fedora upgrade

Fedora 9 will be released this month, this means that Fedora 7 will be end-of-live within 2 months (1 month after the release of Fedora 9 to be exact).

As one of my desktops was still running Fedora 7 it was time to upgrade to the current stable Fedora, Fedora 8.

On the Fedora wiki you can find a list of instructions to upgrade your machine using yum. It will list the general actions but also the execptions for each upgrade.
You can find these instructions here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq

The upgrade went very smooth, but isn’t recommended for non-technical users as it all happens on the command line.
For those non-technical users a graphical user interface which guides you through the complete process would be very handy (Ubuntu has it already, don’t know if it is available in Fedora 8/9).
I prefer the upgrade with yum as I want to know what my machine is doing.

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2 Comments

  1. Rahul Sundaram said:
    April 7th, 2008

    The graphical updater that is going to hit rawhide soon is called preupgrade. Refer

    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PreUpgrade

  2. Johan Huysmans said:
    April 7th, 2008

    The PreUpgrade looks promising. But why does the actual upgrade of the rpms happen during a reboot and not while running the current system.

    With PreUpgrade you can’t use your system during the upgrade (which can take several minutes), with the yum upgrade the system can be used during the complete process, except a normal reboot at the end.

    Please correct me if I’m wrong.

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