On Sunday, March 30, 2014 10:28:18 A Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 03/30/14 10:20, c. marlow wrote:
> > When it comes to upgrading Fedora, is it kinda like the ubuntu way ( in
> > place) or do I have to reformat everytime that a new version comes out>?
> The "Fedora" way is to use the "fedup" (unfortunate acronym). Basically
> this downloads all upgrades, does all the needful things, and then
> completes the upgrade on the next reboot. From the man page....
>
> DESCRIPTION
> fedup is the Fedora Upgrade tool.
>
> The fedup client runs on the system to be upgraded. It determines
> what packages are needed for upgrade and gathers them from the source(s)
> given. It also fetches and sets up the boot images needed to run the
> upgrade and sets up the system to perform the upgrade at next boot.
>
> The actual upgrade takes place when the system is rebooted, using the
> boot images set up by fedup. The upgrade initrd starts the existing system
> (mostly) as normal, lets it mount all the local filesystems, then starts
> the upgrade.
>
> When the upgrade finishes, it reboots the system into the
> newly-upgraded OS.
That is funny ED, its name FEDUP... So I guess in KDE, would that still be MUON? or is that a Kubuntu thing? Thats what i run now to get updates to packages, and Kernel here in Kubuntu 12.04 ?
Christopher