I am considering moving to tumbleweed from leap 15.3. I have hundreds of additional packages installed in addition to the basic install. I have many additional desktops installed and configured. I am looking for a means to convert to tumbleweed and not have to reinstall all the additional apps over again. This is not a trivial effort.
In using tumbleweed dvd offline method, I assume that “installation” option will just install the basic tumbleweed system and all the additional apps would be deleted. In using dvd “upgrade”, I am not sure what will be installed because I am not upgrading a previously installed tumbleweed but installing a tumbleweed over a leap 15.3.
Using online repo change method, might be the best chance of retaining additional apps, if system looks at what was previously installed instead of just installing basic system package list.
Anyone have any insights as to how to convert to tumbleweed and retain all the “addons” previously made to leap?
I bet it will fail. When I left Tumbleweed to 15.1 this is what I did:
My method is to
zypper se -se | awk '{print $3}' > myapps
vi myapps #delete the top 6 lines and ctrl-j all the lines into one big file
copy to usb drive
install 15.3 fresh
copy myapps from usb drive
zypper in `cat myapps` # will install everything zypper had in Tumbleweed.
You still will have to install the printer drivers again.
add locks for important elements of optional repos’ packages
change main repos from Leap to TW
zypper clean
zypper ref
zypper dup
reboot
update and enable optional repos
remove locks on optional packages
zypper ref
*]zypper dup
It’s been a very long time since I upgraded from Leap to TW, and have no real memory of it. It may have happened before Leap was born (to “Factory”, pre-TW). Outright failure I think I would have remembered.