Brief: This tutorial shows you how to upgrade Fedora version to a new major release.
Considering that Fedora 32 has been released, you as a Fedora 31 user may want to upgrade your system to the latest release to use all the new features in Fedora 32.
In this article, I’ll show you how to upgrade to Fedora 32 Workstation from Fedora 31 Workstation.
Note
This article was originally written for upgrading an older version of Fedora. But the steps for upgrading the Fedora version remains the same for any release. Hence, I haven’t changed the screenshots in the tutorial.
Upgrade Fedora to a Newer Release
There are two ways to upgrade to a newer version of Fedora. The graphical way and the command-line way. I’ll show you both ways of upgrading Fedora in this tutorial.
Use Software Center to upgrade to Fedora 32
The good thing about Fedora is that it doesn’t take long in notifying you of availability of a new version. All you have to do is to open the Software Center and look for updates. You may see the new version available here.
If you don’t see any upgrades available here, try hitting the reload button on the top left corner.
Keep in mind that it may take a couple of days before the upgrade to the newer version of Fedora is available for everyone. If everyone gets to upgrade on the same day, it would stress the servers which would result in slow downloads of the updates. Servers may even crash. This is why upgrades are rolled down gradually.
If you see the upgrade option available, just click on Download and follow the procedure.
The download will take some time depending on your internet speed. Once the required files have been downloaded, you’ll be asked whether you want to install them or not.
When you choose to install it, you’ll be asked to restart your system. It kind of reminds me of Windows upgrade. Upgrading Ubuntu version doesn’t obstruct you from using your desktop.
Once you restart and login to your existing Kernel (the grub screen), you’ll see that your system is upgrading to a newer version:
Once this process completes, your system will boot into the newer Fedora version. That’s it. Enjoy Fedora 32.
Use command line to upgrade to Fedora 32
Another way to upgrade Fedora is by using DNF command line tool. DNF has a system upgrade plugin for the sole purpose of distribution upgrade.
First thing first, make sure that your system packages are updated. Open a terminal and run the command below:
sudo dnf upgrade --refreshUpgrade or no upgrade, it’s always a good idea to make a backup of your system. I suggest that you make a backup of your important files before the upgrade. It is optional yet recommended.
Next, you need to get the upgrade plugin. Use the command below for that:
sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgradeNow that you have everything set, you can start the upgrade now. You should know the version to which you are upgrading. If you are upgrading to Fedora 32, use the number 32 in the command:
sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=32
You’ll see that it starts downloading the Fedora 32 upgrade.
Note: If you face issues when upgrading because of broken dependencies, or obsolete packages, add the ‐‐allowerasing flag in the above command. This flag removes packages that are blocking Fedora upgrade.
Once the download finishes, you can reboot your system into the upgrade procedure. Use this command for that:
sudo dnf system-upgrade rebootYou’ll see the kernel selection screen at the reboot.
And after this, the system upgrades begins. It may take some time in completing the upgrade.
Did you upgrade to Fedora 32?
I hope this tutorial helped you to upgrade to Fedora 32 from Fedora 31. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to drop a comment below.
I would like to have a good customisation for fedora 32. I recently downloaded fedora 32
[[email protected] ~]$ sudo dnf system-upgrade download –releasever=32
Före du fortsätter, förvissa dig om att ditt system är helt uppgraderat genom att köra ”dnf –refresh upgrade”. Vill du fortsätta [y/N]: y
Fel: Behöver en –releasever som är högre än den aktuella systemversionen.
[[email protected] ~]$ sudo dnf system-upgrade download –releasever=32 ‐‐allowerasing
usage: dnf system-upgrade [-c [config file]] [-q] [-v] [–version]
[–installroot [path]] [–nodocs] [–noplugins]
[–enableplugin [plugin]] [–disableplugin [plugin]]
[–releasever RELEASEVER] [–setopt SETOPTS]
[–skip-broken] [-h] [–allowerasing]
[-b | –nobest] [-C] [-R [minutes]]
[-d [debug level]] [–debugsolver]
[–showduplicates] [-e ERRORLEVEL] [–obsoletes]
[–rpmverbosity [debug level name]] [-y]
[–assumeno] [–enablerepo [repo]]
[–disablerepo [repo] | –repo [repo]]
[–enable | –disable] [-x [package]]
[–disableexcludes [repo]]
[–repofrompath [repo,path]] [–noautoremove]
[–nogpgcheck] [–color COLOR] [–refresh] [-4] [-6]
[–destdir DESTDIR] [–downloadonly]
[–comment COMMENT] [–bugfix] [–enhancement]
[–newpackage] [–security] [–advisory ADVISORY]
[–bz BUGZILLA] [–cve CVES]
[–sec-severity {Critical,Important,Moderate,Low}]
[–forcearch ARCH] [–no-downgrade]
[–number NUMBER]
[download|clean|reboot|upgrade|log]
dnf system-upgrade: error: unrecognized arguments: ‐‐allowerasing
[[email protected] ~]$ sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot
Fel: systemet är inte redo för en uppgradering
What to do??
I was installing fedora 32 and at upgrading at reboot, my laptop battery died. It was at approx 90% complete. After reboot the “uh oh! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can’t recover. Contact a system admin” screen appears. I’ve tried booting in multiuser and attempting the upgrade again, however, the upgrade never starts and the uh oh screen persists. Any advice?
I suggest to use another computer to create a live USB of Fedora 32 and boot from it and then copy your personal data from the home directory to some other external disk.
And then, you install Fedora 32 afresh.
This is the only thing I can suggest.
why you copy-pasta from official website without mentioning it ?
I am sorry. What makes you think this is a copy paste from official website? Just because it’s the same procedure, doesn’t mean it’s a copy paste.
This is a pasta-free zone.