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PreUpgrade is an application users run on a existing release, that resolves and downloads packages required to upgrade to a newer release of Fedora. While PreUpgrade downloads the necessary packages, users are free to continue using their systems. This gives an experience similar to a live upgrade. Upgrade to current release directly Preupgrade provides an upgrade directly to the latest version of Fedora. It is not necessary to upgrade to intermediate versions. For example, it is possible to go from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16 directly. Prepare the system While preupgrade provides a generally hassle free upgrade experience. The following steps are recommended before proceeding. Backup - Before performing any system maintenance, it is recommended that you back up all important data before proceeding. Update - Apply available updates Fedora updates before proceeding. As the root user, issue the following command. yum update Install - As of Fedora 10, the preupgrade utility is
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As many of you know, today, November 8th, 2011, was the final release of Fedora 16.  I was debating if I was going to upgrade right away, or wait it out a few weeks and see the reports from others first. Over the past several weeks, I’ve seen a lot of people complaining of various things in the #Fedora IRC channel on Freenode with regards to Fedora 16.  So I was a bit skeptical of course.  I’m certainly not one to rush off into an upgrade on my distro majority of the time.  Yes, I’ve done it a couple of times over the years in the past. I have done upgrades several ways over the years.  Using a CD/DVD to do the upgrade.  Using urpmi with Mandriva/Mandrake to do an upgrade and even doing a net upgrade back in the day.  I even once performed an upgrade using
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