June 15, 2026

Fedora 44 -- upgrade via DNF

I will give an amusing comment up front. When I did a search on "fedora 44" to see what the state of things was, I found a video with the title "Fedora 44, boring".

Well I certainly hope so! That is exactly what I want from an operating system upgrade. I will look for my excitement in other arenas.

Home machine upgrade from 43 to 44

First I did a dnf update and rebooted to the latest kernel.
Then: 

su
dnf upgrade --refresh
-- this, of course, does nothing
dnf -y system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=44
I get this: 
Problem: installed package gcc14-c++-14.3.1-1.fc43.x86_64 requires gcc14 = 14.3.1-1.fc43, but none of the providers can be installed
  - gcc14-14.3.1-1.fc43.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package
I have no idea what this old gcc version is about. When I type "gcc --version" it reports 15.2.1, so: 
dnf remove gcc14-c++
dnf -y system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=44
And away we go! We have 6G in 3103 packages to fetch. This begins at 10:54 AM -- Check at 11:04, reports 2670/3215 -- Check at 11:18, all done! 
dnf system-upgrade reboot
By 11:48 it is done and has rebooted to run F44. This went smoothly and without hassle.

Now do cholla

This machine has been up for 153 days and is long overdue to get updates and a reboot. 610 packages are waiting to update. 
su
dnf -y update
sync
reboot
This is done blind. I wait 5 minutes and log back in. The reboot went OK. After the reboot: 
su
dnf upgrade --refresh
-- as always, this does nothing
dnf -y system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=44

dnf system-upgrade reboot
The download has no issues, and goes very fast as this machine is at the University and has a very good connection to the internet.

The final upgrade/reboot is blind. I attempted ssh now and then and after about 15 minutes, I was able to login and see: 

uname -a
Linux cholla 7.0.12-201.fc44.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jun 11 01:30:16 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux
The webserver is running and everything seems OK. This was a simple and clean upgrade.
Have any comments? Questions? Drop me a line!

Adventures in Computing / tom@mmto.org