How to in-place upgrade from Opensuse 13.1 to 13.2…

Following along in my line of “Readers Digest” versions of the official Opensuse upgrades procedures (here are a couple of my past ones: 11.1, 11.2, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1), here’s the latest for upgrading in-place from 13.1 to 13.2 (just be sure to run each of these lines one-at-a-time, not like a script):

## Check your repos. Look for anything custom, and note it for later if so...
zypper lr
# If you can, do a final update (if the repos still exist)...
zypper up
# Disable all the old repos...
zypper modifyrepo --all --disable
# Now set up the new repos for 13.2...
zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-13.2-OSS" http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.2/repo/oss/ repo-13.2-oss
zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-13.2-Non-OSS" http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.2/repo/non-oss/ repo-13.2-non-oss
zypper addrepo --check --refresh --name "openSUSE-13.2-Updates" http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2/ repo-13.2-updates
zypper addrepo --check --refresh --name "openSUSE-13.2-Updates-Non-Oss" http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2-non-oss/ repo-13.2-updates-non-oss
# Now do a refresh to update the local cache...
zypper ref
# Do a Distribution UPgrade... and I like the option to download all the packages first, before installation...
zypper dup --download "in-advance"
# Now, make a list of the old disabled repos; they might be a combination of 12.3 and 12.2 on some systems, if they weren't cleaned before...  Whoops...  ;)
zypper lr
# Remove all the old repos, for example...
zypper rr repo-12.2-non-oss repo-12.2-oss repo-12.2-update repo-12.3-non-oss repo-12.3-oss repo-12.3-updates repo-12.3-updates-non-oss repo-update-non-oss repo-13.1-non-oss repo-13.1-oss repo-13.1-updates repo-13.1-updates-non-oss repo-update-non-oss
# One more check to be sure that only 13.2 repos remain...
zypper lr
# And reboot...
init 6

My advice is to make sure you have multiple terminal sessions during the upgrade, in case something goes a little strange, and make sure you have space for the kernel and all the files.

Thanks to the folks at Suse, and here’s the “long and detailed” guide that I adapted this from:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade

Cool!

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