Mageia 4 - how to upgrade

[ChickenHawk]

I am using Mageia 3 (KDE - I believe) and have been VERY happy with it. I see that version 4 is out, and my updater is not notifying me of an upgrade. How do I go about upgrading to version 4, what are the major improvements? I am OK in relation to tech skills, but not skilled in programming, etc. So please - be gentle with me. LOL. Thanks in advance, for a great dystro.

[wintpe]

you say KDE i think

that makes me think you are a novice.

so firstly dont take this the wrong way, but dont upgrade until
those that have a good idea how to fix issues, have had a chance to look over this for a while as
already there are some issues arising that may not be for a pleasant expirience if you are a novice.

just my opinion, but give it a month.

if you do ignore my personal opinion, then please use clonezilla or similar to
take a complete backup of your system , to another disk.

at least if your system becaomes unusable you have a quick way back to normal operation.

and if its any indication , i do know what im doing (well mostly) and i wont be upgrading to mga4
till around this time next year, and that is no reflection on the product, i just like to wait till
things are on a sure prooven footing.

regards peter

[pete910]

Depending on whether "New Default releases" check is enabled or not, is should come up on your sys tray as a blue icon with an arrow on it !

Having said that, mines not checked and its still informed me

But if you are unsure as wintpe has said, wait for us people that know how too first.

[ChickenHawk]

you are correct that I am a novoice to Mageia. I have been using it with much happiness, but do not know all the technical aspects. Am I correct to say that as the "issues" are corrected, and it is an official (fully stable) system - that the updater will notify me of the update?

Thanks for the advice - I am very happy with 3, so there is no hurry. Do you have any advice on the major improvements I can look for with version 4?

[doktor5000]

Am I correct to say that as the "issues" are corrected, and it is an official (fully stable) system - that the updater will notify me of the update?

Yes, it should. The applet should show you an icon as this one:

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Best wait until you see it, as you mirror may take some time to completely sync the Mageia 4 packages. If you don't see it within the next month, just report back here.

Do you have any advice on the major improvements I can look for with version 4?

Best have a look at the release notes: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_4_Release_Notes

[eor2004]

i wont be upgrading to mga4
till around this time next year, and that is no reflection on the product, i just like to wait till
things are on a sure prooven footing.

regards peter

I will do the same!

[rickst29]

A few hours ago, I tried upgrade using the DVD, and it was apparently unable to use Mageia's mirror list to get a FULLY UP-TO-DATE mirror. It proceeded to try and upgrade using just 'core' and 'nonfree' from the DVD, and failed to complete.

I switched to the command-line 'online upgrade' process. I chose to use 'mirrors.kernel.org' as media sources, they seemed to be complete (and very fast). "urpmi --replacefiles --auto-update --auto" wrestled with about 2100 RPMs on the first round (i have a very 'fat' box), but didn't find additional RPMs when I repeated immediately. It also didn't find any addtional RPMs following restart. Although those 2nd and 3rd re-runs have been necessary in the past (Mga2 -> Mga3, the very first command found ALL of the RPMs in this upgrade.

I've not tried any of my alternate DE's yet, but the upgraded KDE desktop works perfectly. It "feels" a bit faster, too. I'm delighted by the simplicity and relative safety of the command-line upgrade. absolutely flawless, but you do need a good netowrk connection.

[jiml8]

i wont be upgrading to mga4
till around this time next year, and that is no reflection on the product, i just like to wait till
things are on a sure prooven footing.

regards peter

I will do the same!

I won't be waiting THAT long, but since I'll be upgrading my main production system (without which I get no work done), I will be waiting until all the issues are identified and corrected, then I will upgrade when I don't have a lot of work to do, and when I'm in the mood to deal with it.

I undoubtedly would be able to solve any issues that come up, one way or another, but I'm not into pain and I have to have this system working.

If I were a Linux novice right now, I would just kick back, relax, and wait until everything was taken care of.