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Upgrade your Fedora System to a new major release with preupgrade

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If you plan to upgrade your Fedora system to the latest release, you should have a look at PreUpgrade. It downloads all the necessary packages required to upgrade to a newer release of Fedora.I upgraded my PC from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14 with PreUpgrade and it worked surprisingly well! The only downside is that the upgrade takes very long. Maybe that was because of my very very old hardware...

step 1: update your system

# yum update

step 2: install preupgrade

# yum install preupgrade

step 3: reboot

# init 6

step 4: run preupgrade

# preupgrade

Link: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade

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