Needed to reboot my Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 desktop anyway, so decided to upgrade it to RHEL 8.1.
Check That Your Software Subscription is Active
For example, I realised that I have still been using the RHEL 8 beta subscription instead of the Developers License. After completing Red Hat subscription registration, I got the following:
greys@redhat:~ $ sudo subscription-manager list
+-------------------------------------------+
Installed Product Status
+-------------------------------------------+
Product Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Product ID: 479
Version: 8.1
Arch: x86_64
Status: Subscribed
Status Details:
Starts: 14/11/19
Ends: 13/11/20
Upgrade Red Hat OS with yum-update
yum tools are more integrated that many people though! So I’m still using yum update instead of dnf:
root@redhat:~ # yum update
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs) 2.6 kB/s | 4.5 kB 00:01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs) 3.0 MB/s | 13 MB 00:04
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs) 2.4 kB/s | 4.1 kB 00:01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs) 2.4 MB/s | 12 MB 00:04
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:01 ago on Thu 14 Nov 2019 21:28:59 GMT.
Dependencies resolved.
Package Arch Version Repository Size
Installing:
yum-utils noarch 4.0.8-3.el8 rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms 64 k
replacing dnf-utils.noarch 4.0.2.2-3.el8
kernel-debug-devel x86_64 4.18.0-147.0.3.el8_1 rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms 14 M
kernel-devel x86_64 4.18.0-147.0.3.el8_1 rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms 13 M
kernel-core x86_64 4.18.0-147.0.3.el8_1 rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms 25 M
kernel x86_64 4.18.0-147.0.3.el8_1 rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms 1.5 M
kernel-modules x86_64 4.18.0-147.0.3.el8_1 rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms 22 M
Upgrading:
netcf-libs x86_64 0.2.8-12.module+el8.1.0+4066+0f1aadab rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 77 k
libXt x86_64 1.1.5-12.el8 rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 185 k
alsa-utils x86_64 1.1.9-1.el8 rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 1.1 M
...
podman-manpages noarch 1.4.2-5.module+el8.1.0+4240+893c1ab8 rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 180 k
python3-pip-wheel noarch 9.0.3-15.el8 rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms 1.2 M
mozjs60 x86_64 60.9.0-3.el8 rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms 6.7 M
libssh-config noarch 0.9.0-4.el8 rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms 18 k
python3-setuptools-wheel noarch 39.2.0-5.el8 rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms 289 k
Installing weak dependencies:
oddjob-mkhomedir x86_64 0.34.4-7.el8 rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 52 k
libvarlink x86_64 18-3.el8 rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms 44 k
Transaction Summary
Install 17 Packages
Upgrade 646 Packages
Total download size: 1.2 G
Is this ok [y/N]:
Some 15min later I had my desktop in a much better shape:
And that’s it! I rebooted the server and my OS is RHEL 8.1 now:
greys@redhat:~ $ more /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.1 (Ootpa)
greys@redhat:~ $ uname -a
Linux redhat 4.18.0-147.0.3.el8_1.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 11 12:58:36 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
See Also
Red Hat Linux
RHEL 8 Reference
screenFetch in RHEL 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 released
Linux Commands
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