If usesIn OpenSUSE you will know that there are two different versions: the stable Leap and the rolling Tumbleweed.
Here I have to stand a little bit as I think both are fixed versions. The rolling version of Tumbleweed is not before the fixed leap. What does this mean; Perhaps there are many who believe that the rolling version is built to serve steady, testing new products and applications and services. Error.
OpenSuse is not like the other distributions you know and you may have tried.
The Linux distributions that we know and are available on a rolling basis, contain programs packages, which have been tested in a test repository. After no errors and bugs have been observed, then and only then they proceed to their stable version.
But it is not the case with Tumbleweed. Before even using packages from the test repository, it is first tested by people and after machines. Then proceed to the test repository or Factory.
That's where the tests from too many begin users and when it is considered ready for mass use, it goes through control again (first by humans and then by machines). After the process is complete it goes to the rolling release repository. This means that it has gone through a lot of testing before it is released.
The only thing left is the system that you install the operating system. If the hardware is old and there are problems, you can report the bug to fix it at the next update.
If you are in OpenSUSE Leap and want to try the Tumbleweed below, we'll describe how to change version:
We first make a backup of Leap's repos
su -
mkdir /etc/zypp/repos.d/old
mv /etc/zypp/repos.d/*.repo /etc/zypp/repos.d/old
Then add the official repositories of Tumbleweed
zypper ar -f -c http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss repo-oss
zypper ar -f -c http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss repo-non-oss
zypper ar -f -c http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/debug repo-debug
zypper ar -f -c http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/ repo-update
We check the repos that we installed:
zypper lr-u
and refresh repos to get the new gpg keys
zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys ref
Following the above we are ready to change the version
sudo zypper dup
The last command will take a long time to complete (depends on your connection)
After installing, we can add more repositories
zypper ar -f -n packman http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ packman
zypper ar -f -n science http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ science
zypper ar -f -n wine http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ wine
We're done.
If for some reason you are not happy, let's see how you can go back to Leap
I would certainly recommend a clean installation of Leap, but you can also try the following way:
Let's remove the Tumbleweed repos. Then we will bring back the Leap repositories from the backup we made at the beginning:
su -
rm /etc/zypp/repos.d/*
mv /etc/zypp/repos.d/old/*.repo /etc/zypp/repos.d/
Let's check the repositories:
zypper lr-u
refresh for new gpg keys.
zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys ref
And now we can go back to Leap:
sudo zypper dup
