Fedora


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.


Administration

Software Installation

Softrware can be installed on a host running Fedora with dnf(8).

Services


Release Upgrades

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. If not already available locally, install a release upgrade plugin for dnf(8)

sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade
  1. Download the new release

    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.

sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=36
  1. Validate the GPG fingerprint that is printed to the screen
  2. Trigger the upgrade and reboot sequence

sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot
  1. If it was not done in step 3, erase unsupported software

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


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