ROME Major Upgrade (Feb. 13, 2026) special instructions

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So far I have upgraded ROME systems in Virt-Manager (Qemu) and VBox. These are both Plasma6 Wayland x86_64 systems. YMMV. (X11 does not work for me in Qemu or VBox.) This basic command string works just fine.

sudo dnf clean all ; sudo dnf dsync --allowerasing

All few oddities.

During the upgrade windows pop up for 2 things. There is a new KDE Welcome thingy. For that one just click skip or ignore it. Another window pops up saying “Updating” that is for Discover. You can click cancel or just ignore it.

In VBox the new kernel does not boot for me. So to upgrade ROME system in VBox I recommend for now to do:

sudo dnf clean all ; sudo dnf dsync --allowerasing -x kernel-desktop

Edit: To make this permenant so you do not accidently install it add this line to your /etc/dnf/dnf.conf:

exclude=kernel-desktop-6.19.0-1

Note: kernel-desktop-6.19.0-1 does work for me in both Virt-Manager(Qemu) and works in hardware in my Cooker hardware systems. So should be fine on hw systems.

If you want a new kernel 6.18.9-2 from here is working for me. Don’t worry that it says cooker and not rolling. All kernels originate in cooker.

So far not to much excitement except the kernel not working in VBox, that is reported to developers.

On to upgrading my hardware ROME system. Will report when done.

Aggiornamenti di febbraio 2026
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Geek warning.

Worth a mention as always: When you use the option --allowerasing or the command autoremove pay attention to what is in the removal list. If there is something in the list you do not want removed deal with it or ask us.

dnf autoremove is designed to remove packages that were formerly installed as dependencies but are not longer needed by the newer packages. It can be a very useful command if you pay attention.

For this Major Upgrade for me it removed 12 or so packages. task-plasma6-minimal does not exist any longer due to name change, the others were old python packages no longer needed with the most recent python upgrade.

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My hardware upgrade was uneventful. The only thing to add is that if you want to use your ROME hw system as a VBox host you will need to install kernel-desktop-6.18.9-2 or older kernel. VBox so far not working with kernel-desktop-6.19.0-1.

ROME major upgrade expected