Upgrading to Harpy Eagle

[LegacyCore]

I guess my search ninja skills are not that great, but is there a way to upgrade to Harpy Eagle without doing a fresh install? I'm running Garuda on my work laptop and have so many hours into setting it up for work I'd hate to lose it all.

[SGS]

Rolling release

sudo pacman -Syu

or

upd

or

update

[jonathon]

Welcome to a rolling-release distro.

[filo]

If you want to be sure to bring in all the new packages, I think you could use:

curl https://mirrors.fossho.st/garuda/iso/garuda/dr460nized/210926/garuda-dr460nized-linux-zen-210926-pkgs.txt | grep -Eo '^[^ ]+' | paru -Syu --needed -

Not my idea, just found this hint, which seems interesting to me:

Will I need to reinstall every single major iso release?

Most of the changes will affect automatically, but some you need to do manually.

My handy trick:

(credits go to various stackexchange posts) WARNING: May or may not work and could break the system . curl https://builds.garudalinux.org/iso/garuda/dr460nized/210507/garuda-dr460nized-linux-zen-210507-pkgs.txt | grep -Eo '^[^ ]+' | paru -Syu --needed - (dr460nized, 210507 and garuda-dr460nized-linux-zen-210507-pkgs.txt may vary) And then, change "paleofetch" to "neofetch&q…

[dr460nf1r3]

Although it might be noted that installing snapper-support will provide access to the new snapper integration with this special release

[SGS]

That wasn't the question

[LegacyCore]

Thanks for all the responses haha, yeah rolling release that didn't occur to me