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Upgrading Fedora 24 to 25

Fedora 25 was released a few days ago.

I've upgraded one of my machines. The others are soon to follow. Fedora 25 switches from X11 to Wayland as a default. For my laptop I had to switch last release because my laptop's touchpad was nowhere to be found in X. For this release I am looking forward to not getting to play games on my main desktop. I am sure to blog about any problems I happen upon.

If you're running Fedora 24 you can easily upgrade to Fedora 25 running the following console commands. But before that, make sure your system is fully upgraded and rebooted, especially if you installed some kernel updates.

sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade
sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=25 --allowerasing

The --allowerasing argument allows some packages to be deleted during the process. I had some dangling haskell packages, that needed to be deleted. No problem there.

Once all the downloads are done, type sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot to reboot your system starting the actual upgrading process.

And yeah, I broke my work setup that used proprietary NVidia drivers to get a second monitor running.

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Published: Sun 03 July 2016
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Upgrading Fedora 23 to 24

Fedora 24 was released a few days ago.

I've upgraded one of my machines. The others are soon to follow. One problem I discovered was that the default Gnome-X-Session does no longer support my touchpad, disabling tap-to-click for me. Switching to the Wayland session worked very well and I have yet to hit any glitch.

If you're running Fedora 23 you can easily upgrade to Fedora 24 running the following console commands. But before that, make sure your system is fully upgraded and rebooted, especially if you installed some kernel updates.
```
sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade
sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=24 --allowerasing
```
The --allowerasing argument allows some packages to be deleted during the process. I had some dangling haskell packages, that needed to be deleted. No problem there.

Once all the downloads are done, type sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot to reboot your system starting the actual upgrading process.
Published: Thu 05 November 2015
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Upgrading Fedora 22 to 23

Fedora 23 was released a few days ago.

I've upgraded one of my machines. The others are soon to follow. I have yet to hit a problem with Fedora 23.

If you're running Fedora 22 you can easily upgrade to Fedora 23 running the following console commands. But before that, make sure your system is fully upgraded and rebooted, especially if you installed some kernel updates.
```
sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade
sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=23 --best
```
The --best argument makes sure if there are any transaction problems, the installation will not continue. I've had to remove some old gstreamer-plugins that are sure to come back with a new installation of fedy.

Once all the downloads are done, type sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot to reboot your system starting the actual upgrading process.

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