Eric D. Schabell: Upgrade Fedora 14 to Fedora 15 howto

Friday, May 27, 2011

Upgrade Fedora 14 to Fedora 15 howto

This upgrade when smoother than any so far, did not lose any Network settings for example! This is all you need to do:

# As root you would like to have a clean start to the
# upgrade, so get an update out of the way.
#
$ yum update rpm

$ yum -y update

$ yum clean all

# Should a new kernel install/update require it,
# reboot before continuing with the rest.
#
# Then install the preupgrade package.
#
$ yum install preupgrade

# For console upgrade, use:
#
$ preupgrade-cli "Fedora 15 (Lovelock)"

# If you like gui's to upgrade, use this.
#
$ preupgrade

That was it, just watch the action, drink some coffee/beer and reboot when asked to. Presto change-o you now have a Fedora 15 installation!