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So the cool thing about Fedora Silverblue? I’m rebasing to the latest Fedora 37 beta now (mostly to play with GNOME 43). If anything goes wrong, I enter one command in terminal and I’m back to the exact latest version of Fedora 36 I was using before :)

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/how-to-rebase-to-fedora-silverblue-37-beta/

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How to rebase to Fedora Silverblue 37 Beta – Fedora Community Blog

Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. 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.
zlopez (Fedora Project)
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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So that’s the theory, anyway.

In practice:

error: Could not depsolve transaction; 2 problems detected:
Problem 1: conflicting requests
- nothing provides system-release(36) needed by rpmfusion-free-release-36-1.noarch
Problem 2: conflicting requests

🤷‍♂️

#ohWell #fedoraSilverblue
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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If anyone else encounters this while attempting to upgrade from Fedora Silverblue 36 to 37 (beta):

https://libreddit.bus-hit.me/r/Fedora/comments/xg9o5u/update_f36_silverblue_to_f37_beta_silverblue/

#fedoraSilverblue
#FedoraSilverblue
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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Specifically, to fix this issue:

1. Run:

rpm-ostree update --uninstall rpmfusion-free-release --uninstall rpmfusion-nonfree-release --install rpmfusion-free-release --install rpmfusion-nonfree-release

2. Re-run the rebase:

rpm-ostree rebase fedora:fedora/37/x86_64/silverblue

3. Reboot:

systemctl reboot

#fedoraSilverblue
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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…aaand, back from the reboot and running on Fedora Silverblue 37 with GNOME 43.

Nice! :)

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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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I have to say, that one little snag aside, that was the easiest/fastest operating system update I’ve ever performed on any operating system ever.

#fedoraSilverblue #usability
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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Also, excellent first-run GNOME Software experience on Fedora Silverblue 37. Had about 28 updates listed, everything installed beautifully (with lovely row slide/disappear animations for installed apps).

(There were first-run issues with GNOME Software on Fedora Silverblue 36.)

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Claudius (legacy account)
Claudius (legacy account)
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I tried Silverblue 36 two days ago, and for me it was a very odd experience. I now installed workstation, which gave me decidedly less trouble.

the software center in particular just was too buggy for me.
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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@claudius It was buggy in 36.

Also, having used it for some time now, I think the conventional wisdom of “always run in a container” is backwards. I should write something about this.
@Claudius (legacy account)
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mikael
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I'm so in love with the Kinoite/Silverblue theory. But I think I need more of that theory becoming practice. I have I have it on a less used X220 though! Have not done a single update yet. 😄
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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@mikael If you do decide to carry out the update, I’ve added the workaround to the issue I encountered to the comments on the original blog post with instructions here:

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/how-to-rebase-to-fedora-silverblue-37-beta/42508/2

How to rebase to Fedora Silverblue 37 Beta

Possible error: You might run into the following error during the rebase while following these instructions: error: Could not depsolve transaction; 2 problems detected: Problem 1: conflicting requests - nothing provides system-release(36) needed …
Fedora Discussion
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tuxflo
tuxflo
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@mikael to be fair: you can do this kind of rollback in almost any distro if you make use of btrfs with snapper or timeshift or if you install your packages with nix
@mikael
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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@tuxflo @mikael It comes down to that “if.” It’s a big if. (Most ifs are.) :)
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