For a long time i have had a phobia of updating and upgrading my operating system. I guess this is a hangover from the bad old days of windows where the customary 6 month total re-install was as fun as tooth extraction, and usually required just before a large deadline. I have two significant influences on the subject. Jeff appears to hold a similar view of the situation, with good reasoning – Computers are boring, why would you want to spend all your time admin-ing them when you could be building something. Rob, however, is constantly beating us to update and upgrade.
I decided I should upgrade my laptop before 25c3 next week , and so bit the proverbial bullet. After reading many posts and pages and how-to’s all prescribing different techniques, I discovered its actually very easy and quite painless.
So in summary:
su -
yum -y update
yum clean all
preupgrade # If you don’t all-ready have this, yum install preupgrade
Thats it, 4 lines, it takes about 5 min of actual time and then a few hours of downloading and crunching. I was able to keep working for the first few hours until reboot time (It asks politely). Then it crunches a while longer during the next boot (another hourish).
This worked on F9 and is currently crunching on F8
