ROME to Rock switch

[rugyada]

Note:
on 2025-04-29T22:00:00Z the switch is still possible.

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Hello,

OpenMandriva Lx version:
ROME to Rock

Desktop environment:
KDE Plasma 6

Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):
Users running ROME and wishing to switch to Rock at proper time

Relevant informations:

@rugyada

Q: Can I switch from Cooker to ROME or from ROME to Rock?
A: No, you should only move forward .
However there will be a short time frame when we sync the cooker repository to rolling (ROME), or the rolling repository to rock, at which point there won’t be a difference and switching should be safe.
Just make sure you do it exactly in the time frame between the sync and the next bigger update.

While waiting for OMLx Rock 6.0 to be officially released, some current ROME/rolling users may want to be prepared to rollback their system if they so wish or need.

Like the above quote does state, rollback is not something we usually recommend, but there is a short window time when Cooker and ROME and/or ROME and Rock share the same content in their repositories.
That will be the proper time for the switch. Not before and not later.

We suggest to follow or bookmark this topic so that you can be ready when the time will come.
Instructions will follow.

To be on the safe side, consider to make a backup of your important data right now.
Backups are always a very good practice, regardless

[WilsonPhillips]

Get your backups done. Don’t go into this without good backups of your data. I don’t care if you are going to upgrade from Rock 5 to Rock 6, or ROME to Rock 6, or a clean install. You need to be prepared.

How to back up my home folder ~/

[ben79 (Ben Bullard)]

The safest thing any Linux users of any distro can do is to keep a backup of important data so one can do a fresh install quickly if bad things happen. Granted this does not happen often but if it does you will be very grateful you did this.

I do this and I keep important data on a separate partition that is not a system partition. So if one of my operating systems gets borkified (broken) the /Data partition is still available. I can do fresh install, configure, and be back in business in hour or so.

For installed systems there are things like Timeshift so you can restore an installed system to an earlier snapshot if something bad happens. I am still learning Timeshift myself.

[WilsonPhillips]

Do you want to move from ROME to a more stable Rock 6.0? Well, now is the time to do it.

Open the Software Repository Selector

Change the Update Channel from Rolling to Rock

It will warn you about downgrading
Tell it Yes

It will ask for your password a couple of times and then you can close the Software Repository Selector.

Now, we go to the dreaded terminal. Sorry, there is no other way, but it is simple copy and paste

sudo dnf clean all ; dnf clean all ; dnf repolist

You should see Rock repos
Yours may not be znver1, but have x86_64 in the name, but they must say Rock
If not, STOP and come post about it

We will check for updates
This is the command you should run each and every time

sudo dnf clean all ; dnf clean all ; dnf repolist ; sudo dnf distro-sync --refresh --allowerasing 2>&1| tee dsync2-log-txt

If you run this today April 22, 2025, you should see no updates
If it wants to downgrade a few packages, that is normal.
If it wants to downgrade many hundreds of packages, answer NO and come post about it

[rugyada]

Start to finish screenshots:

Initial situation:

Open Repository Selector:

Select Rock, then OK:

Type your password when required (2 dialogs)

sudo dnf clean all;dnf clean all;dnf repolist
sudo dnf distro-sync --refresh --allowerasing

Finally, do:
sudo plymouth-set-default-theme OpenMandriva
sudo dracut -f

Enjoy!

[raskolnikov (Rodion Raskolnikov)]

Thanks, it went very smoothly

[rugyada]

2025-04-24T22:00:00Z
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