* Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> [09-11-18 12:14]:
Terry Eck composed on 2018-09-11 07:44 (UTC-0500):
In the past I've always performed a new install of opensuse. This time I'd like to try an update. Can anyone advise me as to what pitfalls I might encounter? Thanks for any advice
I have many original installs over many years subsequently upgraded only using zypper, among which several going straight from 13.1, 13.2, 42.1, 42.2 or 42.3 to 15.0. The last two I did, less than two weeks ago, were from 42.2 directly to 15.0, and 42.1 directly to 15.0.
I do it in steps:
1-zypper clean 2-edit /etc/zypp/repos.d/* changing 42.2 to 15.0 in each of *.repo 3-zypper ref 4-zypper -v in --download-in-advance zypper libzypp libsolv-tools rpm openSUSE-release 5-zypper -v in --download-in-advance device-mapper dmraid glibc lvm2 multipath-tools mdadm systemd udev 6-zypper -v dup 7-zypper pa --unneeded 7-zypper rm <unneededpackages>
some additional words: I just [re]installed Tw on my work machine which had been continually updated since Greg KH and pre-Tw. my new install boots in 15 sec rather than 2.25 min and is more responsibe and uses much less disk space. many accumulated little or no more used apps gone. except for the reason calling for the install, much happy camper. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org