If you have an old version of Fedora and you want to update, you can do it without formatting the computer thanks to this little tutorial.
It seems that lately the Fedora operating system is the linux operating system that is the most fashionable lately. The reason is the output of Fedora 24, the latest version of this operating system to which we already dedicated a complete article very recently that you can see here.
In that article we have explained in detail and step by step how we could install this operating system on our computer from 0. But we have realized something, that is, that we forgot to explain how to update Fedora to the latest version, in the case of having an old version of this operating system.
If you have doubts about updating or not to the latest version of Fedora, we advise you to do so, since so you will be able to have new functionalities like Wayland and you will also have a more up-to-date operating system and therefore, more secure.
The first thing we must do to update this operating system ands enter the command terminal and type the following commands.
dnf upgrade --refresh dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade
With this we will install the special plugin to be able to update the operating system. Once we have done it, we are going to type the last commands of this minitutorial.
dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=24 dnf system-upgrade reboot reboot
With the first command, we are telling you to download version 24 of Fedora and with the other two commands, we are going to tell them to restart the computer.
When restarting the computer, let's see how the operating system has been updated when restarting the computer, being now ready to be able to use it in a stable and safe way.
If you want to improve the user experience, you can install certain additional packages, such as the special version of Mozilla Firefox with Wayand, of which we have talked about in this article.
As I learned, before doing anything it was necessary to remove external repos.
This is done in the GNOME software application, where in the only bar there is, you click on the GNOME software icon when the application is on the screen and you get a menu that has the software sources option.
You choose it and remove all the fonts that you can later install. Greetings.
I have Fedora 21 I wanted to update and it sent me the message
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/ usr / bin / dnf", line 36, in
main.user_main (sys.argv [1:], exit_code = True)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 185, in user_main
errcode = main (args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 84, in main
return _main (base, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 115, in _main
cli.configure (map (ucd, args))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/cli.py", line 981, in configure
self.optparser.usage = self.optparser.get_usage ()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/option_parser.py", line 255, in get_usage
usage + = "% -25s% s \ n"% (name, summary)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 40: ordinal not in range (128)
I upgraded from Fedora Mate 23 to 24 with no problem.
I used:
$ sudo dnf upgrade --refresh;
$ sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade;
$ sudo dnf system-upgrade download –releasever = 24 –allowerasing –nopgpcheck
$ sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot
Thanks to the Fedora / Red Hat Community !!
Saludos desde Argentina !!