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 2. If not already available locally, install a release upgrade plugin for `dnf(8)`  2. Download the new release
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 3.3 The download may be blocked if support for some software was dropped. The `--allowerasing` option can be passed to force the download anyway.		 The download may be blocked if support for some software was dropped. The `--allowerasing` option can be passed to force the download anyway.
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 6.#6 Clean up after a successful boot If system won't boot, try to rescue boot and check the system journal.

If system boots into a non-updated release, are you running on a Raspberry Pi or some other platform that may not have a perfectly functional system clock? There's a [[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242759#c41|wontfix bug]] and the best solution is to `sudo touch /usr/lib/clock-epoch`.

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Fedora

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system.

Fedora is heavily supported by Red Hat, which maintains the downstream operating systems RHEL and CentOS Stream.

CentOS was a downstream operating system up to version 8, when Red Hat killed the project in favor of CentOS Stream. The new downstream operating systems Rocky Linux and Alma Linux were created in response.

Contents

  1. Fedora
    1. Installation
      1. Upgrading
    2. Administration

Installation

TODO: Add instructions from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Raspberry_Pi#Preparing_the_SD_card and https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/133150/how-to-expand-the-volume-of-fedora-35-server to setup the SD card and expand the 3rd partition.

Upgrading

A new major version of Fedora happens is released six months, approximately in April and October. Major version releases are supported for 13 months.

A host running Fedora can be upgraded in steps of 1 or 2 major version releases.

  1. Update all software and reboot
  2. Download the new release 

sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade
sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=40

The download may be blocked if support for some software was dropped. The --allowerasing option can be passed to force the download anyway.

  1. Validate the GPG fingerprint that is printed to the screen
  2. Trigger the upgrade and reboot sequence 

sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot

If system won't boot, try to rescue boot and check the system journal.

If system boots into a non-updated release, are you running on a Raspberry Pi or some other platform that may not have a perfectly functional system clock? There's a wontfix bug and the best solution is to sudo touch /usr/lib/clock-epoch.

  1. Clean up after a successful boot 

sudo dnf system-upgrade clean
sudo dnf clean packages
  1. If it was not done in step 2, erase unsupported software 

sudo dnf install remove-retired-packages
remove-retired-packages
sudo dnf repoquery --unsatisfied

Administration

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Linux/Fedora (last edited 2024-10-23 04:16:54 by DominicRicottone)