Migrating CentOS 8 to CentOS Stream 8
- Support for security and bug fixes in Stream will be roughly 4 years (from 10). Clarification on supported time.
- Major versions (8, 9) will track ahead of Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases.
- You will be upgraded to each minor version in an rolling-release fashion.
- There might be issues with some EPEL packages (EPEL is Fedora’s responsibility).
To upgrade, install centos-release-stream
package from extras
repository:
$ sudo dnf install centos-release-stream
Last metadata expiration check: 1:27:40 ago on Tue 08 Dec 2020 01:58:10 PM UTC.
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
centos-release-stream x86_64 8.1-1.1911.0.7.el8 extras 11 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 1 Package
Total download size: 11 k
Installed size: 6.6 k
Is this ok [y/N]:
Then run dnf distro-sync
:
$ sudo dnf distro-sync
The distro-sync
subcommand is used to synchronize installed packages to the latest versions on upgrades. When no argument is provided, dnf
updates all packages from active repositories.
And that’s it. You should be on CentOS Stream 8!
$ sudo cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Stream release 8
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https://ostechnix.com/how-to-migrate-to-centos-stream-8-from-centos-linux-8/