Hi
I found that one of the big disadvantages of Fedora is that it has the short life cycle and downloading and installing all applications from scratch every year is boring and irritating.
Some gives the advise, not to upgrade Fedora.
However I do not want to have an "unsupported linux".
Now I feel with just 5 Terminal Commands, we can upgrade Fedora with no loss of the applications. I believe this could be repeated continuously unless and until an app-set designed exclusively for a version is installed or the Kernel loses upgradability. The Kernel would lose upgradability when a version begins with a lower kernel version as compared to the previous distribution level. For instance, Fedora 16 ended with Kernel 3.5.2 and Fedora 17 began with Kernel 3.3.2. Though there are commands to downgrade and then upgrade versions for such cases, generally it may pose a problem. Now let's go to the command list. All the below commands have to run as a super user - root.
Kindly find below the commands:
First we must upgrade the rpm package:
yum update rpm
Then we install the latest updates:
yum update -y
Next we clean the yum cache:
yum clean all
If you notice that a new kernel got installed during the command "yum update -y", you should reboot the system now. The command to do it from terminal is
Now we come to the upgrade process.
yum install preupgrade
preupgrade
reboot
After the reboot, log in as root again, either directly or with the help of su
We can do this with preupgrade.
"preupgrade" will also take care of your RPM-Fusion Packages.
To Install preupgrade...
You have run the upgrade
Thus the system is upgraded to the new version, just reboot and now you have the new distribution. Therefore, Fedora can be used as rolling release if you master these commands and update the system through terminal. It is safer to have back-ups made before you do all these aforesaid process.
Yours
VN
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