Rolling users time to distro-sync

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Hello,

  • OpenMandriva Lx version:

Rolling

  • Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):

ALL

  • Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):

Time for Rolling users to distro-sync (distribution upgrade).

  • Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):

The rolling repository sync with cooker repositories was done Jan. 12 and 13.

So users can upgrade their rolling systems. This is a long command string and will take some time. The bulk of time is taken by dnf --allowerasing distro-sync. Use this command in Konsole (terminal) to do the upgrade:

$ dnf clean all ; sudo dnf clean all ; sudo dnf --allowerasing distro-sync ; sudo dnf autoremove ; pkcon refresh force

Then reboot for new kernel.

There will be some questions at the end of the distro-sync part asking about keeping original file or newly created file for /etc/hosts and /etc/shadow. Just press Enter to accept default which keeps the original files. If you have questions ask in a forum post in English/Support section.

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Yes, please ask in the forum before you break your system :stuck_out_tongue:

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Some screen-shots.

Tis one shows the questions at the end of the actual distribution upgrade or distro-sync:

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Just press Enter to accept the default answer.

After reboot you should have:

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If you use Firefox you should have:

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For Chromium users we have chromium-browser-stable v. 96, chromium-browser-beta v. 98, and chromium-browser-dev v. 99.

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Unfortunately the Google sync in Chromium no longer works since Google stopped this in March of 2021.

Software Repository Selector aka: om-repo-picker has an important new feature. Developer has added option to install a handfull of repositories for a handful of popular apps.

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More about what is new for Rolling/OMLx 4.3 here.