Edit: Thanks for the suggestions @jfmherokiller. For AMD graphics no driver install should be needed. The kernel or systemd (I think) should pick the correct kernel module.
If I understand correctly for users with supported hardware for the latest nvidia driver you install it with:
sudo dnf in nvidia
You will need to have the compatible kernel installed but we upgrade kernel and then upgrade nvidia right after new kernel. Edit: Anyway if you don’t have the correct kernel dnf won’t install it. It will tell you what you need.
I did not find the GUI Updater in my newly-installed ROME Xfce spin. I wonder if the software GUI application would also update all the packages as well.
Just trying to clear up something here. We only use the --allowerasing the first time? After that it is $ sudo dnf clean all ; dnf clean all ; dnf repolist $ sudo dnf --refresh distro-sync
Allow erasing of installed packages to resolve dependencies. This option could be used as an alternative to the dnf swap command where packages to remove are not explicitly defined.
In OMLx systems this is usually needed if some package will not upgrade because the package name changed. This allows for dnf to remove the old package and install the new package. I do recommend that users pay attention to what --allowerasing or dnf autoremove remove just in case.
Now everyone read this, there will be a quiz at 10:00 sharp.
One thing that maybe an annoyance if you come from other package managers. The default when using dnf is n for most other pakage managers it’s y i think when i tried fedora i was able to change the behavior. Just a small thing to help pacman and especially apt users feel more at home.
I hope that changes the default from having to type y to only having to press enter.
This is speculation until I know more: You do not want something automatically saying yes to rpm dialogs like say an upgrade to shadow which might install a new empty /etc/shadow leaving user with no users or passwords including root password. This is fixable but for non-technical users it is a freak out. User needs to select to keep the existing file regardless of what rpm makes the default. (Unless the user does not need users or passwords…)
The “default” not always is the same, depending on the package/s.
Changing default to all Y for such sensible configs like /etc/group /etc/gshadow /etc/passwd /etc/shadow and users blindly push Enter key or go with “default” will lead to serious problems.
Example of one of the gazillions warning we publish ROME major upgrade expected - #10 by rugyada
