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, 13.2, 42.1, and 42.2), here’s the latest for upgrading in-place from Suse Leap 42.2 to Leap 42.3 below. Just be sure to run each of these lines one-at-a-time, not like a script.
And please… if you don’t know what you’re doing, please don’t do this. This process does not take many special conditions into account, since it is a simplified version. There’s a link at the end for the official documented instructions if you need further help. Now, let’s get to it:
# # Make a snapshot before you proceed! # Run the following as the root user, or insert all your sudo commands if you like # Please ensure you have space to do an upgrade! df -h # If you can, do a final update (if the repos still exist)... zypper ref;zypper up # Now check your repos. Look for anything custom, and note it for later if so... zypper lr --url # Now, we actually do the UPGRADE… # Disable all the old repos... zypper modifyrepo --all --disable # Now set up the new repos for 42.3... zypper addrepo --check --refresh --name 'openSUSE-42.3-Update' http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.3/oss/ repo-42.3-update zypper addrepo --check --refresh --name 'openSUSE-42.3-Update-Non-Oss' http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.3/non-oss/ repo-42.3-update-non-oss zypper addrepo --check --refresh --name 'openSUSE-42.3-OSS' http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.3/repo/oss/ repo-42.3-oss zypper addrepo --check --refresh --name 'openSUSE-42.3-Non-OSS' http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.3/repo/non-oss/ repo-42.3-non-oss # Verify that the repos look right zypper lr --uri # Import the keys for the repos and refresh the local cache… zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys 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 42.2 and 13.x on some systems, if they weren't cleaned before... Whoops... ;) zypper lr # Remove all the old repos, for example... zypper rr repo-42.2-non-oss repo-42.2-oss repo-42.2-update repo-42.2-update-non-oss # And now that the upgrade is done, add back any custom repos at this point (optional, depends on your environment) # One more check to be sure that only the desired 42.3 repos remain... zypper lr --uri # And reboot (and watch from a console)... 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:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Distribution-Upgrade
Cool!