{"id":5663,"date":"2024-02-19T01:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T07:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2024-02-16T12:07:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T18:07:24","slug":"migrate-centos-8-stream-to-almalinux-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/migrate-centos-8-stream-to-almalinux-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrate CentOS 8 Stream to AlmaLinux 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.almalinux.org\/documentation\/migration-guide\">https:\/\/wiki.almalinux.org\/documentation\/migration-guide<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Update CentOS 8 Stream<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">sudo dnf update -y<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Download and run the almalinux-deploy script<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">curl -O https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/AlmaLinux\/almalinux-deploy\/master\/almalinux-deploy.sh<br>sudo bash almalinux-deploy.sh -d<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll need to run with the -d &#8220;downgrade&#8221; option if you are migrating from CentOS 8 Stream.  https:\/\/github.com\/AlmaLinux\/almalinux-deploy\/tree\/master?tab=readme-ov-file#roadmap<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may need to remove packages if there are conflicts.  On one instance, there were issues and I needed to remove grafana and llvm-compat-libs.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">sudo yum remove grafana llvm-compat-libs<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>After those errors are fixed, rerun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">sudo bash almalinux-deploy.sh -d<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the script finishes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">sudo reboot<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Once it comes back up, check the Linux version<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">cat \/etc\/*release<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Example output<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-dark-gray-background-color has-background\"><code class=\"\">AlmaLinux release 8.9 (Midnight Oncilla)\nAlmaLinux release 8.9 (Midnight Oncilla)\nNAME=\"AlmaLinux\"\nVERSION=\"8.9 (Midnight Oncilla)\"\nID=\"almalinux\"\nID_LIKE=\"rhel centos fedora\"\nVERSION_ID=\"8.9\"\nPLATFORM_ID=\"platform:el8\"\nPRETTY_NAME=\"AlmaLinux 8.9 (Midnight Oncilla)\"<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/wiki.almalinux.org\/documentation\/migration-guide Update CentOS 8 Stream sudo dnf update -y Download and run the almalinux-deploy script curl -O https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/AlmaLinux\/almalinux-deploy\/master\/almalinux-deploy.shsudo bash almalinux-deploy.sh -d You&#8217;ll need to run with the -d &#8220;downgrade&#8221; option if you are migrating from CentOS 8 Stream. https:\/\/github.com\/AlmaLinux\/almalinux-deploy\/tree\/master?tab=readme-ov-file#roadmap You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/migrate-centos-8-stream-to-almalinux-8\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1653,1389,1655,17,1656,1657,494,7,1147,1652,363],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-1653","tag-almalinux","tag-almalinux-8","tag-centos","tag-centos-stream-8","tag-conversion","tag-convert","tag-linux-2","tag-migrate","tag-stream","tag-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5846,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions\/5846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}