Upgrade Fedora 17 To Fedora 18 With FedUp

Upgrade F18 with FedUp

Every time with a new release of Fedora, the anxiety goes up along with that we have to mask the troubles of formatting our system that all the settings & applications are to be added newly. But here we resolve your issue without format, how you can upgrade your Fedora 17 system to Fedora 18 with the help of the Fedora Updater (FedUp).

Please make sure that the system that you want to upgrade has more than 600 MB of RAM. The following commands to be executed in the terminal with root privilege (Use su). 

upgrade rpm> install  latest updates> clean the yum cache. 

• yum update rpm
• yum -y update
• yum clean all
• reboot

Now upgrade through FedUp:

• yum install fedup
• fedup-cli --network 18
• reboot


From the boot menu, select System Upgrade (fedup). Please be patient, during the reboot, the upgrade is being performed. This can take quite a long time.