Upgrade Fedora 33 from Fedora 32 using DNF

This is guide, howto upgrade Fedora 32 to Fedora 33 using DNF. This method works on desktop and server machines. You can also upgrade older Fedora installations (example Fedora 31/30/29) directly to Fedora 33.

I have tested this method on several machines, but if you have problems, please let me know. Always remember backup, before upgrade!

Check video version of guide:

1. Before Upgrade⌗

1.1 Backup Your Data⌗

Before doing anything, do full system backup or backup at least your important data: documents, pictures, videos, config files, log files, databases etc. This is very important step, because if something goes wrong and you have to do fresh install, then you can easily restore your data.

2. Upgrade Fedora 32 to Fedora 33 using DNF⌗

Desktop users can start upgrade using Software app and skip to step 2.7

Following steps are mainly for Fedora Server and command line users

2.1 Change root user⌗

su -
## OR ##
sudo -i

2.2 Update Fedora 32/31/30 Packages⌗

Just make sure that you have all latest packages installed.

dnf --refresh upgrade

2.3 Reboot Your System⌗

Just make sure that you are running latest kernel.

reboot

2.4 Install/Update dnf-plugin-system-upgrade package⌗

It’s probably installed already.

dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade --best

2.5 Start Upgrading Using DNF⌗

dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=33

When this finish, check if there is any errors. You might need

--best

and

--allowerasing

options to get all packages downloaded.

2.6 Start (F32 to F33) Upgrade Process⌗

dnf system-upgrade reboot

2.7 Grub 2 Menu Boot with Latest Kernel⌗

2.8 Starting System Upgrade⌗

2.9 dnf-plugin-system-upgrade Upgrading Fedora 32 to Fedora 33⌗

3. Fedora 33 Screenshots⌗

3.2 Fedora 33 Plain Desktop Gnome Desktop (Gnome Shell)⌗

3.3 Fedora 33 and Gnome About⌗

4. Fedora 33 Clean Up Post Upgrade (as root user)⌗

4.1 Rebuilding the RPM DB⌗

rpm --rebuilddb

4.2 Do Distro Sync⌗

dnf distro-sync --setopt=deltarpm=0

4.3 Check All Your Config Files⌗

Use rpmconf to find .rpmnew, .rpmsave and .rpmorig files. You can keep current version, use old version, watch the diff or merge.

dnf install rpmconf

rpmconf -a