Fedora 27 is the latest version of Fedora released recently. Fedora Workstation users may require upgrading their Workstations to use the latest version.
This tutorial will help you to upgrade to Fedora 27 Workstation using command line utility DNF. This is the recommended way to upgrade your Fedora release. The users running with Fedora 25 or 24 recommend upgrading to the next Fedora release first.
Upgrade to Fedora 27
Generally, servers run without any Desktop environment. So this section will useful for upgrading Fedora server as well as workstation using the command line. Make sure you have proper backups of your data on the external backup drive.
Step 1 – Update Fedora System Packages
Make sure you are running current system with latest packages. You can update your system using DNF command line tool.
$ sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
Step 2 – Install system upgrade DNF plugin
DNF required system upgrade plugin to be installed. So use the following command to install system upgrade dnf plugin.
$ sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade
Step 3 – Download the upgrade packages
After successfully installing system upgrade plugin, download the updates packages of Fedora 26.
$ sudo dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=27
If any of the packages have unsatisfied dependencies, Fedora will refuse the upgrade process. You can use --allowerasing option with above command, This will remove any packages which are broken. Watch the output of the command to check which packages are getting removed from the system, So you can install again.
Step 4 – Start upgrade process
Finally, run the following command to start the upgrade process. This will reboot your system and complete the upgrade.
$ sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot
Let’s wait for the upgrade complete. After completion of this, you will have Fedora 26 running on your Desktop or Server.
Reference:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade
Hello 🙂
New version of my unofficial GUI for FedUp, which simplify upgrade process was released (v1.0.2).
I’ve added “check for updates” option so keeping with up-to-date is not a problem anymore 🙂
KFUpgrade need only Java JRE installed and Xterm.
Hope it simplify someone upgrade process 🙂
Current link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/biygu679mlxscnp/KFUpgrade-v1.0.2.tar.gz?dl=0
Hello 🙂
If someone don’t like using CLI by finger, I’ve wrote unofficial GUI for FedUP (KFUpgrade) – it can download files for upgrade to F19/20/21 (Alpha). Next Step after GUI is Step 2.6 from Your tutorial – start upgrade in GRUB. I’ve wrote it for myself, but under GPLv3 license and source code is distributed with application, so it’s available for everyone 🙂
To work it only need Java JRE installed (Oracle or OpenJDK) and Xterm (rpm is not avaible at this moment, lack of knowledge how to build it, so depends must be installed manually).
Screenshots:
– http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=1znrajd&s=8#.U–ji0RfO2c
– http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=qnjuyt&s=8#.U–mYERfO2c
Download: