Upgrade experience FYI

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I thought it worth mentioning. Though it works for me, I’m not sure I want to advocate it.
But I did this to go from 12.3 to 13.1
And just today, to go from 13.1 to 13.2

This was the process:

Change my repos from 13.1 to 13.2
All my repos were available - if you have some that are not, you will need to disable those.

Then in Yast > Software Management (I use KDE so it’s QT and this option is available) > View by repository > System > Update all in this list Unconditionally

I closed the conflicts box and then viewed all Unmaintained packages > Chose delete all in this list.
That resolved the conflicts.

Proceeded with the update >
It’s a big download - mine was about 6GB

Once completed I re-opened the Software Manager to double check everything. Kernel and nvidia driver (Yes I updated all this in place)
Then I ran a grub mkconfig from the terminal, just to make sure.

Reboot

All is well and I have 13.2
Just needed to edit in the grub menu to reflect 13.2

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You like it on the wild side, I see.

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I’m tempted… from 12.3 directly to 13.2, just to make it more exciting.

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It actually puts to bed some established do’s and don’t s

One thing is: I do have a parallel install in place. And files are backed up. But of course no partitioning is taking place, it’s just a dist upgrade.

But that’s twice I have done it now, with perfect results.

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You are not alone.
That is exactly what I do.
I also take a look with the bootloader before proceeding the upgrade.

On my part the most important even if it is a bit painful is
manually check all the packages with dependencies.

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On 2014-11-21 21:36, BSDuser wrote:
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> You like it on the wild side, I see.

No, the procedure is basically correct. I would do it in text mode,
though. Or with zypper dup.

There was a yast module for distribution upgrade, but it hasn’t seen
much testing. I’ve never used it. Actually it is old, I have seen it in
7.3 this afternoon… not the same one, but the same basic idea.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)