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) here’s the latest for upgrading in-place from 11.4 to 12.1:
zypper modifyrepo --all --disable zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-12.1 OSS" http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/ repo-12.1-oss zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-12.1 Non-OSS" http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/non-oss/ repo-12.1-non-oss zypper addrepo --refresh --name "openSUSE-12.1 Updates" http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/ repo-12.1-update zypper ref zypper dup --download "in-advance"
I like to use the “in-advance” setting so I can be sure all the packages are downloaded before the upgrade begins. You just never know when there might be a power outage…
Of course, if you were using alternative repos, you might want to add those back too. For instance, if you had the google-chrome repo, you’d enter this command to re-enable it:
zypper mr -e google-chrome
…you can find the rest of your disabled repos (from the first step above) with this command:
zypper sl
You might want to remove your disabled 11.4-based repos, since you no longer need them. So based on the list from the command above, you can remove them in one command. Here’s the command I used to remove all my 11.4 repos (your repos may be different!):
zypper rr Updates-for-openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 repo-debug repo-debug-update repo-non-oss repo-source
Enjoy your upgraded machine!
🙂