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Upgrade Fedora Remix for WSL to Version 35

NOVEMBER 01, 2021 BY CARLOS RAMIREZ IN HOW-TO

Today November 2, Fedora 35 was released

You can upgrade your existing installation of Fedora 34 with the following steps.

First, if you are in Windows 1903 or newer first backup WSL your installation:

wsl –export fedoraremix fedoraremix34_backup.tar.gz

Then proceed:

• sudo upgrade.sh
• sudo dnf upgrade –refresh
• sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade
• sudo rpm –import https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/fedora-repos/blob/rawhide/f/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-35-primary
• sudo dnf install distribution-gpg-keys
• sudo dnf system-upgrade –allowerasing –skip-broken download –releasever=35
• sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot

At this point, it will raise an error, ignore it, and execute the following commands:

• sudo dnf system-upgrade upgrade
• sudo dnf -y autoremove
• sudo dnf -y clean all
• sudo mandb
• upgrade.sh
• cat /etc/fedora-release

• exit

If you have Windows 11, you can use WSLg in Fedora Remix. Let’s follow some steps so you can squeeze the best of this technology.

• Tune Fedora Remix for WSL
• Enable D-Bus
• Many Linux apps rely on D-Bus to work properly. This support is installed in Fedora Remix for WSL running:

• sudo dnf install dbus dbus-x11

Install your beloved GUI app using dnf, for example:

• sudo dnf install terminator

It will create a Start Menu shortcut for it called in this case Terminator (fedoraremix)

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