How to upgrade to a different release via the shell?

rokejulianlockhart · October 31, 2024, 6:13pm

Discover has informed me that I am able to upgrade to Fedora 41 from 40:

Instead, I want to do this via my shell, since I want to log the output, and don’t want to perform such a massive update via PackageKit, since it makes scary decisions:

However, sudo dnf offline-upgrade download reports 0 available updates. In fact, even sudo dnf upgrade does!

#!/usr/bin/env -S bash
sudo dnf offline-upgrade download

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Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
The system-upgrade transaction is empty, your system is already up-to-date.

glb · October 31, 2024, 6:24pm

I think you need to supply --releasever=41. I’m not sure with the offline upgrade though. If you want to do it interactively and log the results, you might need to boot to multi-user mode, sign in as root on a VT, and run something like dnf upgrade --releasever=41 |& tee my-dnf.log.

computersavvy · October 31, 2024, 6:40pm

I would do that as shown at Upgrading Fedora Linux Using DNF System Plugin :: Fedora Docs though there are also other ways to do so.

rokejulianlockhart · October 31, 2024, 10:58pm

So the undermentioned should work?

#!/usr/bin/env -S bash
sudo dnf offline-upgrade download \
   --refresh                      \
   --skip-broken                  \
   &&                             \
sudo dnf offline-upgrade reboot

#!/usr/bin/env -S pwsh
sudo dnf system-upgrade download              `
   --refresh                                  `
   --skip-broken                              `
   --releasever=$([int]$(rpm -E '%fedora')+1) `
   &&                                         `
sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot

It seems strange that they recommend the standard dnf upgrade, instead of the safer offline-upgrade.

rokejulianlockhart · October 31, 2024, 11:27pm

Should I also add the F41 RPMfusion repository at the same time?

Error: 
 Problem 1: package ffmpeg-libs-debuginfo-6.1.2-2.fc40.x86_64 from @System requires ffmpeg-debuginfo(x86-64) = 6.1.2-2.fc40, but none of the providers can be installed
  - ffmpeg-debuginfo-6.1.2-2.fc40.x86_64 from @System  does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package ffmpeg-libs-debuginfo-6.1.2-2.fc40.x86_64
 Problem 2: package obs-cef-5060^cr103.0.5060.134~git20231010.17f8588-6.fc40.x86_64 from @System requires libavcodec.so.60()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - package obs-cef-5060^cr103.0.5060.134~git20231010.17f8588-6.fc40.x86_64 from @System requires libavcodec.so.60(LIBAVCODEC_60)(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - package obs-cef-5060^cr103.0.5060.134~git20231010.17f8588-6.fc40.x86_64 from @System requires libavutil.so.58()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - package obs-cef-5060^cr103.0.5060.134~git20231010.17f8588-6.fc40.x86_64 from @System requires libavutil.so.58(LIBAVUTIL_58)(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - package obs-cef-5060^cr103.0.5060.134~git20231010.17f8588-6.fc40.x86_64 from @System requires libavformat.so.60()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - package obs-cef-5060^cr103.0.5060.134~git20231010.17f8588-6.fc40.x86_64 from @System requires libavformat.so.60(LIBAVFORMAT_60)(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - ffmpeg-libs-6.1.2-2.fc40.x86_64 from @System  does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package obs-cef-5060^cr103.0.5060.134~git20231010.17f8588-6.fc40.x86_64

#!/usr/bin/env -S bash
sudo dnf install \
	'https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-41.noarch.rpm' \
	'https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-41.noarch.rpm'

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Error: 
 Problem 1: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides system-release(41) needed by rpmfusion-free-release-41-1.noarch from @commandline
 Problem 2: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides system-release(41) needed by rpmfusion-nonfree-release-41-1.noarch from @commandline
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)

computersavvy · October 31, 2024, 11:36pm

The repos get upgraded as part of the regular upgrade. In fact, since the repo files mostly use macros to identify the architecture and release there is seldom a change required in those files.

When I upgraded my laptop I was not required to upgrade the repo files themselves. (and never have needed to do so as a separate action)

rokejulianlockhart · October 31, 2024, 11:37pm

@computersavvy, is my problem merely that those packages haven’t had releases published which are compatible with F41, then (if you know)?

computersavvy · October 31, 2024, 11:43pm

If you already have the rpmfusion-free and rpmfusion-nonfree repos enabled (check with ‘dnf repolist’) then there is no need to attempt the install as you are doing.

If fedora was already at version 41 you probably would not be getting those errors.

Did you do the recommended dnf upgrade --refresh or dnf distro-sync --refresh prior to trying the dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=41 step?

I would recommend that you remove the ‘obs-cef’ package which is not a fedora package. Also remove the ‘ffmpeg-libs-debuginfo’ . It is not necessary unless you are actively performing development and need to do debugging.
Both those packages can be reinstalled after the upgrade if they are truly necessary.

rokejulianlockhart · November 1, 2024, 12:25am

@computersavvy, yeah - dnf upgrade --refresh. I’ve never used distro-sync, because I’m unfamiliar with how it differs to the former.

That was silly of me. Thanks. Removing them works fine.

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