Migrating from tumbleweed to kalpa

romariorios · November 22, 2025, 4:29pm

Hello, all,

I have an old laptop laying around with Opensuse tumbleweed installed on it, but I’m interested in testing an immutable distro. Would I be able to migrate to Opensuse Kalpa in this machine or I would have no choice but making a fresh installation?

hui · November 22, 2025, 4:35pm

As far as i know, migration is not supported. You need to perform a fresh installation.

C7NhtpnK · November 22, 2025, 5:05pm

github.com/openSUSE/opensuse-migration-tool

README.md

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# 🛍️ openSUSE Migration Tool

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> 🗪 **Experimental** — Use with caution until a complete test suite is implemented.
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A command-line tool to **simplify upgrades and migrations** across openSUSE distributions — including *Leap*, *Tumbleweed*, *Slowroll*, and even migrations from **Leap to SLE**.

General documentation about openSUSE Leap upgrade or Migration can be found at [SDB:System_upgrade](https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade) wiki.

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## 🌟 Key Features

👉 **Upgrade to pre-releases such as Leap 16.0 Beta**
👉 **Migration across various openSUSE distributions**
👉 **Migration to SUSE Linux Enterprise products**
👉 **Integrates get.opensuse.org product API + openSUSE-repos**
👉 **Dry-run mode for safe previews**

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Supported Migration Paths

Tumbleweed → Slowroll
Slowroll → Tumbleweed
MicroOS → MicroOS-Slowroll
MicroOS-Slowroll → MicroOS
Leap → Leap n+1, SLES, Tumbleweed, Slowroll
Leap Micro → Leap Micro n+1, MicroOS, MicroOS-Slowroll

Unsupported or discouraged paths:

Tumbleweed → Leap (downgrade, not supported)
Tumbleweed → MicroOS (immutable shift)
Non-immutable → Immutable (generally unsupported)

sfalken · November 22, 2025, 7:03pm

No, there is no migration path from Tumbleweed (or anything else really) to Kalpa. Fresh installs only.