Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. If you want to update to Fedora 32 Beta on your Silverblue system, this article tells you how. It not only shows you what to do, but also how to revert back if anything unforeseen happens.
Prior the the update to Fedora 32 Beta it is better to do any pending upgrades.
Updating using terminal
Because the Fedora 32 Beta is not available in GNOME Software, the whole upgrade must be done through terminal.
Updating to Fedora 32 Beta using terminal is easy. First, check if the 32 branch is available, which should be true now:
$ ostree remote refs fedora
You should see the following line in the output:
fedora:fedora/32/x86_64/silverblue
Next, rebase your system to the Fedora 32 branch.
$ rpm-ostree rebase fedora:fedora/32/x86_64/silverblue
Finally, the last thing to do is restart your computer and boot to Fedora 32 Beta.
How to revert things back
If anything bad happens — for instance, if you can’t boot to Fedora 32 Beta at all — it’s easy to go back. Just pick the previous entry in GRUB, and your system will start in its previous state before switching to Fedora 32 Beta. To make this change permanent, use the following command:
$ rpm-ostree rollback
That’s it. Now you know how to rebase to Fedora 32 Beta and back. So why not do it today?
March 21, 2020 — 10:07
I think it’s worth mentioning that you can pin your current deployment with:
$ ostree admin pin 0
and remove the pinning with:
$ ostree admin pin –unpin 0
March 21, 2020 — 15:33
Thanks for additional info. I only mentioned the commands related to rebase itself.
April 29, 2020 — 11:55
I have quite a lot of layered and local packages. Is it still save to rebase the system or can I expect broken layered and local packages?
April 29, 2020 — 12:15
I have plenty of packages layered by myself and didn’t have any issue with it. You could always do rollback if anything happens. 🙂
May 1, 2020 — 23:16
Okay, thank you very much! I’m going to try it out!
May 19, 2020 — 15:22
what’s the different between silverblyue and workstation here :
fedora:fedora/rawhide/x86_64/silverblue
fedora:fedora/rawhide/x86_64/workstation