Installing the latest version of openSUSE Migration Tool from Github (Migrating From Tumbleweed)

I’m looking to migrate from Tumbleweed to Slowroll and am following the steps shown in the Slowroll portal. I am a bit confused on the wording and instructions for installing and running the OpenSUSE Migration Tool:

The version which is shipped in the Tumbleweed and Leap repositories, is missing a fix which lets the migration to Slowroll fail. You can download the fixed tool from the upstream github source and run it directly.

Do I download the entire the entire thing as a zip file? And how do I, “run it directly”?

Download the zip archive. Unzip the archive, navigate into the directory and run opensuse-migration-tool.

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Thanks for help, managed to migrate somewhat smoothy. The only complication came from when I was required to install a package called bc, which shortly after installing crashed my terminal and desktop environment (had to reboot).

For anyone also doing this, I navigated to the directory on my terminal (cd or in my case, KDE Dolphin file manager had an option to open the terminal from the directory), then did sudo ./opensuse-migration-tool --dry-run for performing a dry run (assuming you weren’t prompted to install bc) and then remove the dry run command for the real migration.

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