Fedora Linux

In other words, you should run Rawhide only on a secondary computer dedicated to testing because it's far from stable.

Most Rawhide systems are updated daily. The nature of the development process ensures that features will break one day and then start working again a few days later. Menu options will shift around, and from time to time, your system will not boot normally. You may be frustrated, but you'll never be bored when running Rawhide!

There are two ways to install Rawhide: by upgrading from a released version of Fedora Core, or by installing Rawhide directly.

9.4.1.1. Updating Fedora Core to Rawhide

Rawhide is really just a yum repository of development packages. The repository information is distributed with Fedora Core but is disabled.

Edit the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-development.repo to enable the development repository by editing the first enabled line under [development] (highlighted in bold here) to read enabled=1 :

# These packages are untested and still under development. This
# repository is used for updates to test releases, and for
# development of new releases.
#
# This repository can see significant daily turnover and major
# functionality changes which cause unexpected problems with other
# development packages. Please use these packages if you want to work
# with the Fedora developers by testing these new development packages.
#
# [email protected] is available as a discussion forum for
# testing and troubleshooting for development packages in conjunction
# with new test releases.
#
# [email protected] is available as a discussion forum for
# testing and troubleshooting for development packages in conjunction
# with developing new releases.
#
# More information is available at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Testing
#
# Reproducible and reportable issues should be filed at
# http://bugzilla.redhat.com/.
#
# Product: Fedora Core
# Version: devel
[development]
name=Fedora Core - Development
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors/fedora-core-rawhide
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
[development-debuginfo]
name=Fedora Core - Development - Debug
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ $basearch/debug/
mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors/fedora-core-rawhide-debug
enabled=0
gpgcheck=0
[development-source]
name=Fedora Core - Development - Source
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors/fedora-core-rawhide-source
enabled=0
gpgcheck=0

You can optionally enable the development-debuginfo and development-source repositories as well, by setting enabled=1 there as well.

Next, disable all of the other repositories by setting enabled=0 in their respective /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo files. When you're done, enter these commands to confirm that only the development repositories are enabled:

# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# grep enabled *.repo | grep 1
fedora-development.repo:enabled=1

If you see other repository files listed, edit those files to disable the additional repositories.

Once you have set up the repositories, use yum to perform an update:

# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
development 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for newt-perl to pack into transaction set.
newt-perl-1.08-9.2.2.i386 100% |=========================| 9.2 kB 00:00
---> Package newt-perl.i386 0:1.08-9.2.2 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for words to pack into transaction set.
words-3.0-8.1.1.noarch.rp 100% |=========================| 4.0 kB 00:00
...(Lines snipped)...

Once you have completed the update, reboot the system. Update the system frequently (daily updates are recommended) by rerunning yum update .