Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-project] Upgrade from one suse to the next

On 2006-11-23 01:05, Rajko M wrote:
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 22:25, Jay Smith wrote:

Hey, with the upcoming arrival of OpenSuse 10.2, I was wondering, can
anyone tell me how to upgrade from one suse to a higher version w/o having
to use a CD/DVD? I am imagining that there must be some way to upgrade from
OpenSuSe 10.1 itself or online or something. Let me know if anyone has any
idea. Thanks


Jay,

your place to ask this question is the opensuse mail group.


http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux

Essentially you are just adding the new version's installation
repository as an installation source, and updating everything for which
a newer version is available (which of course will be everything you
have installed already). If you have installed anything from an external
repository, eg. from Packman or the opensuse "additional" repositories,
you will also have to amend those entries to point to the new version's
packages. Anything which cannot be upgraded must be removed.

Caveal emptor -- there is a strong warning at the top of the page that
this procedure is not supported, and I suspect the overwhelming majority
of the list's members would strongly recommend against it.

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