FedoraUpgrade.md

Upgrading Fedora To The Latest Version Using DNF

Description

This a how-to step by step of how a Fedora user can safely upgrade his OS version from one version to another supported stable version.

The upgrade will rely on a Dandified yum plugin known as dnf-plugin-system-upgrade.

Let's get started:

Step 1: Open Terminal and Run the Command Below:

$ sudo dnf update

then

$ sudo dnf upgrade --refresh (press y on all prompts & wait)

then afterwards reboot your machine and proceed to the next step:

Step 2: Install this DNF sys upgrader plugin (dnf-plugin-system-upgrade) with below command:

$ sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade (press y on all prompts & wait)

Step 3: Upgrade system with below command. Replacing --releasever=35 with last stable version or a different version of your choice e.g -- releasever=36:

$ sudo dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --allowerasing --releasever=35 --nogpgcheck

(also press y on all prompts & wait)

Step 4: Finalize by rebooting your computer.

You can finally verify the version on terminal with below command:

$ cat /etc/fedora-release