Upgrading From Fedora 23 to Fedora 24 with Gnome

This post will guide you on how to upgrade from F23 to F24 with Gnome.

First let’s start with a machine with Fedora 23 fully updated. IF you are new to fedora then you can simply do it by running $ sudo dnf update.

Once you are done, you will be ready to start off.

**Make sure you are not going to use your production machine as this test might result in data loss.

Enabling COPR repo : dnf copr enable rhughes/f23-gnome320



Editing the fedora.json file

You can find the file at ~/.cache/gnome-software/3.20/upgrades/fedora.json .



Find f24 and change the status key pair value from "Under Development" to "Active",

{
"allow_retire": true,
"branchname": "f24",
"date_created": "2016-02-23 22:57:55",
"date_updated": "2016-02-25 20:39:53",
"dist_tag": ".fc24",
"koji_name": "f24",
"name": "Fedora",
"status": "Active",
"version": "24"
}

Once done, log out and log back into your system. If everything has gone right , you will see this in your Update tab of Gnome software.



That's how you can upgrade from F23 to F24 easily with Gnome 3.20.