How To Upgrade OpenSUSE 12.2 To 12.3 (Desktop & Server)
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Author: Falko Timme <ft [at] falkotimme [dot] com> 
Last edited 04/05/2013
This guide shows how you can upgrade your OpenSUSE 12.2 desktop and server installations to OpenSUSE 12.3.
This document comes without warranty of any kind! I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
1 Preliminary Note
The upgrade can be done on the command line or via the YaST module Wagon (if you are on an OpenSUSE desktop). Since the Wagon method is less tested than the command line update, we will use the command line method here for both servers and desktops.
2 Installing the Latest Updates
Before we do the distribution upgrade, we install the latest updates for OpenSUSE 12.2. Open a terminal/command line window and run
zypper repos –uri
to check what repositories are used and enabled on the system. Make sure that the line that contains http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.2/ in the URI column reads Yes in the Enabled column (in this example the Alias is repo-update and the Name is openSUSE-12.2-Update, but these values can differ; the important column is the URI column):
server1:~ # zypper repos --uri
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | URI
---+---------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------+---------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 | apache-third-party-12.2 | Third-party modules for the Apache HTTP server. (Apache_openSUSE_12.2) | Yes | No | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Apache:/Modules/Apache_openSUSE_12.2/
2 | openSUSE-12.2-1.6 | openSUSE-12.2-1.6 | Yes | No | cd:///?devices=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-VBOX_CD-ROM_VB2-01700376,/dev/sr0
3 | repo-debug | openSUSE-12.2-Debug | No | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/12.2/repo/oss/
4 | repo-debug-update | openSUSE-12.2-Update-Debug | No | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/12.2/
5 | repo-debug-update-non-oss | openSUSE-12.2-Update-Debug-Non-Oss | No | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/12.2-non-oss/
6 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-12.2-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.2/repo/non-oss/
7 | repo-oss | openSUSE-12.2-Oss | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.2/repo/oss/
8 | repo-source | openSUSE-12.2-Source | No | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/12.2/repo/oss/
9 | repo-update | openSUSE-12.2-Update | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.2/
10 | repo-update-non-oss | openSUSE-12.2-Update-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.2-non-oss/
server1:~ #
(If the line reads No in the Enabled column, enable the repository as follows:
zypper modifyrepo –enable repo-update
repo-update refers to the Alias column; if the Alias column reads something like http-download.opensuse.org-82ba1b08, for example, the command would be
zypper modifyrepo –enable http-download.opensuse.org-82ba1b08
If there’s no repository with the URI http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.2/, then add the repository as follows:
zypper addrepo –check –name ‘openSUSE-12.2-Update’ http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.2/ repo-update
)
Now install the latest upfates:
zypper refresh
zypper update
3 Doing The Distribution Upgrade
Now that the latest updates are installed, disable all OpenSUSE 12.2 repositories…
zypper modifyrepo –all –disable
… and enable the OpenSUSE 12.3 repositories:
zypper addrepo –name “openSUSE-12.3 OSS” http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.3/repo/oss/ repo-12.3-oss
zypper addrepo –name “openSUSE-12.3 Non-OSS” http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.3/repo/non-oss/ repo-12.3-non-oss
zypper addrepo –name “openSUSE-12.3 Updates” http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.3/ repo-12.3-update
(If the zypper repos –uri command from chapter 2 displayed any third-party repositories, please check if these third-party repositories are available for OpenSUSE 12.3 as well; if they are, add them as follows:
zypper addrepo –name <name> <url> <alias>
For example, if you use the VirtualBox repository…
server1:~ # zypper repos –uri
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | URI
–+—————–+———————————–+———+———+————————————————————
…
7 | virtualbox | VirtualBox for openSUSE 11.4-12.2 | Yes | Yes | http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/opensuse/11.4
server1:~ #
… enable the VirtualBox repository for OpenSUSE 12.3 as follows:
zypper addrepo –name “VirtualBox for openSUSE 12.3″ http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/opensuse/12.3 virtualbox-12.3
At the time of this writing, there was no VirtualBox repository for OpenSUSE 12.3, but this is just an example of how you’d do it.
Use values for Name and Alias that are not in use yet.)
Now run the full distribution upgrade:
zypper ref
zypper dup
At the end, reboot the system…
reboot
… and enjoy your new OpenSUSE 12.3 system.
4 Links
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