openSUSE project proudly announced the new release of openSUSE 13.2 the code name is Harlequin on November 4, 2014 after one year of continuous improvement, many hours of developing, packaging, testing and fixing issues, a new stable release is here providing the best that Free and Open Source has to offer with our special green touch: stable, innovative and fun!
What’s New in openSUSE 13.2
- openSUSE 13.2 is released with lots of new features and some of important highlights
- KDE 4.14
- GNOME 3.14
- MATE (1.8.1)
- XFCE (4.10)
- LXDE (0.55)
- VirtualBox 4.3.18
- Docker 1.2
- Lot of Improvement in YaST
- IDE KDevelop (4.7.0)
- Anjuta 3.14
- Qt Creator 3.2.1
- KDE Frameworks 5.3
- Ruby 2.1.3
- Python (2.7.8 and 3.4.1)
- PHP (5.6.1)
- Perl (5.20)
- For more details about Release notes
- For upgrade information
Note :1) Take backup of your important data before upgrading, If anything goes wrong we can re install freshly and restore the data.
2) The upgrade will take 2.30 hours based on your internet connection.
1) Checking current version of my Desktop
Use the below command to check which version of Desktop is currently running.
root@magesh-desktop:~# cat /etc/*-release NAME=openSUSE VERSION="13.1 (Bottle)" VERSION_ID="13.1" PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64)" ID=opensuse ANSI_COLOR="0;32" CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org" HOME_URL="https://opensuse.org/" ID_LIKE="suse" openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64) VERSION = 13.1 CODENAME = Bottle # /etc/SuSE-release is deprecated and will be removed in the future, use /etc/os-release instead
Screen shot for openSUSE 13.1
1) Checking update repository
Use the below command to check if the update repository already exists and is enabled.
root@magesh-desktop:~# zypper repos --uri
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | URI
--+---------------------------+------------------------------------+---------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------
1 | repo-debug | openSUSE-13.1-Debug | No | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/
2 | repo-debug-update | openSUSE-13.1-Update-Debug | No | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/13.1/
3 | repo-debug-update-non-oss | openSUSE-13.1-Update-Debug-Non-Oss | No | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/13.1-non-oss/
4 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-13.1-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/non-oss/
5 | repo-oss | openSUSE-13.1-Oss | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/
6 | repo-source | openSUSE-13.1-Source | No | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/
7 | repo-update | openSUSE-13.1-Update | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.1/
8 | repo-update-non-oss | openSUSE-13.1-Update-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.1-non-oss/
If column Enabled says No, enable it by issuing this command. where ‘repo-update’ is the name of the update repository.
# repo-update : OPENSUSE 13.1 # root@magesh-desktop:~# zypper modifyrepo --enable repo-update
If update repository is not available, use the below command to add it.
root@magesh-desktop:~# zypper addrepo --check --refresh --name 'openSUSE-13.1-Update' http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.1/ repo-update
Everything is fine now, So Update system to the latest packages
root@magesh-desktop:~# zypper refresh root@magesh-desktop:~# zypper update
After system update, restart once to take effort.
2) Do Modification before upgrade
Do the below steps before start upgrading to latest version.
# Checking available repos # root@magesh-desktop:~# zypper lr # Remove third party repos because it will conflict the upgrade # root@magesh-desktop:~# zypper rr # Backup current repos folder # root@magesh-desktop:~# cp -Rv /etc/zypp/repos.d /etc/zypp/repos.d.Old # Changing repositories to new version # root@magesh-desktop:~# sed -i 's/13\.1/13\.2/g' /etc/zypp/repos.d/* # If you are upgrading from 12.1 or older, add non-oss-update repo # root@magesh-desktop:~# zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2-non-oss/ repo-update-non-oss # Refresh new repositories # root@magesh-desktop:~# zypper ref
3) Run upgrade?
Use the below command to do full distribution upgrade. You need to agree license agreement and some times you need to hit Y to install particular packages. So keep on EYE with upgrading process.
root@magesh-desktop:~# zypper dup
Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you continue. See 'man zypper' for more information about this command.
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Computing distribution upgrade...
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The following 4 packages are going to change architecture:
insserv-compat x86_64 -> noarch
master-boot-code i586 -> x86_64
snapper-zypp-plugin x86_64 -> noarch
suse-module-tools noarch -> x86_64
1676 packages to upgrade, 36 to downgrade, 284 new, 29 to remove, 4 to change arch.
Overall download size: 956.0 MiB. After the operation, additional 832.7 MiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/? shows all options] (y): y
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4) Checking upgraded version of my Desktop
Use the below command to check which version of Desktop is currently running.
root@magesh-desktop:~# cat /etc/*-release NAME=openSUSE VERSION="13.2 (Harlequin)" VERSION_ID="13.2" PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE 13.2 (Harlequin) (x86_64)" ID=opensuse ANSI_COLOR="0;32" CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org" HOME_URL="https://opensuse.org/" ID_LIKE="suse" openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64) VERSION = 13.2 CODENAME = Harlequin # /etc/SuSE-release is deprecated and will be removed in the future, use /etc/os-release instead
Screen shot for openSUSE 13.2
Play week end with openSUSE 13.2
Can I upgrade straight from 12.2 to 13.2 in this manner, or must I do it incrementally?
@Jay,
I didn’t tried directly from 12.2 to 13.2. If you want to do smooth upgrade better try from 12.2 to 12.3 then 12.3 to 13.1 and finally upgrade to 13.2.
Cool. Upgrade done. All seems right. Thank you a lot.
@lvan,
Welcome.