Cannot upgrade to Fedora 43

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Your repos are locked on the wrong release, fix it:

sudo sed -i -e 's|/42/|/$releasever/|' /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora*.repo
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Thank you so much; this resolved my issue. There was 2817 packages installed when finally upgrading to Fedora 43.

admin@fedora ~> cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Fedora Linux"
VERSION="43 (Forty Three)"
RELEASE_TYPE=stable
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=43
VERSION_CODENAME=""
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 43 (Forty Three)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;38;2;60;110;180"
LOGO=fedora-logo-icon
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:43"
DEFAULT_HOSTNAME="fedora"
HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f43/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://ask.fedoraproject.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=43
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=43
SUPPORT_END=2026-12-02

Command order:

  1. Fix
sudo sed -i -e 's|/42/|/$releasever/|' /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora*.repo
  1. Make sure Fedora is updated
sudo dnf update -y && flatpak update -y && sudo dnf upgrade --refresh -y
  1. Upgrade to Fedora 43
sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=43
  1. Step 3 didn’t work so I had to --allowerasing
sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=43 --allowerasing
  1. To finally implement update
sudo dnf5 offline reboot
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