A word of caution:
As usual, backup important data from your CentOS system before starting AlmaLinux migration task. I tested this script in a freshly installed CentOS 8 virtual machine. My VM doesn't has any data and it is a server edition with minimal installation. It worked just fine without any issues as expected.
Step 1: Update your CentOS system to latest available version as root or sudo user:
$ sudo dnf update
Step 2: Reboot your system to apply the updates:
$ sudo reboot
Let us check the current CentOS 8 version:
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 8.3.2011
Yes, it is the latest version!
Step 3: Download the almalinux-deploy script using command:
$ curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlmaLinux/almalinux-deploy/master/almalinux-deploy.sh
Step 4: Go to the location where you downloaded the script and run the script to start Almalinux migration:
$ sudo bash almalinux-deploy.sh
This command will install some new packages, upgrade and downgrade some existing packages, reinstall a few packages and uninstall some packages.
This will take a couple minutes depending upon the Internet connection speed and the total number of installed packages in your CentOS system.
Sample output:
Check root privileges OK
Check Secure Boot disabled OK
Check centos-8.x86_64 is supported OK
Download RPM-GPG-KEY-AlmaLinux OK
Import RPM-GPG-KEY-AlmaLinux to RPM DB OK
Download almalinux-release package OK
Verify almalinux-release package OK
Remove centos-linux-release package OK
Remove centos-gpg-keys package OK
Remove centos-linux-repos package OK
Verifying… ################################# [100%]
Preparing… ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing…
1:almalinux-release-8.3-4.el8 ################################# [100%]
Install almalinux-release package OK
determining the fastest mirror (55 hosts).. done. [=== ] --- B/s | 0 B --:-- ETA
AlmaLinux 8 - BaseOS 125 kB/s | 3.4 MB 00:27
AlmaLinux 8 - AppStream 155 kB/s | 6.8 MB 00:44
AlmaLinux 8 - PowerTools 589 kB/s | 2.1 MB 00:03
AlmaLinux 8 - Extras 3.3 kB/s | 3.6 kB 00:01
Dependencies resolved.
Package Architecture Version Repository Size
Upgrading:
NetworkManager x86_64 1:1.26.0-13.el8_3 baseos 2.4 M
NetworkManager-libnm x86_64 1:1.26.0-13.el8_3 baseos 1.7 M
NetworkManager-team x86_64 1:1.26.0-13.el8_3 baseos 141 k
NetworkManager-tui x86_64 1:1.26.0-13.el8_3 baseos 319 k
dbus x86_64 1:1.12.8-12.el8_3 baseos 40 k
dbus-common noarch 1:1.12.8-12.el8_3 baseos 44 k
dbus-daemon x86_64 1:1.12.8-12.el8_3 baseos 239 k
dbus-libs x86_64 1:1.12.8-12.el8_3 baseos 182 k
dbus-tools x86_64 1:1.12.8-12.el8_3 baseos 84 k
device-mapper x86_64 8:1.02.171-5.el8_3.2 baseos 372 k
[...]
Migrate to AlmaLinux from CentOS 8 using almalinux-deploy script
If the migration is successful, you will see the following message:
[...]
Complete!
Run dnf distro-sync -y OK
AlmaLinux migration is completed
Step 5: Run the following command to synchronize installed packages to the latest available versions.
$ sudo dnf distro-sync -y
Step 6: Reboot your system:
$ sudo reboot
Now your system will boot into the newly migrated AlmaLinux system:
Step 7: Login to your AlmaLinux system and check its version:
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
AlmaLinux release 8.3 (Purple Manul)
Congratulations! AlmaLinux migration is successful!!
Step 8: You could have used the word "centos" in hostname and username. Simply change them wherever necessary to reflect AlmaLinux.
I am going to update the hostname:
$ sudo hostnamectl set-hostname almalinux8
Replace almalinux8 with your preferred hostname in the above command.
Step 9: Log out and log back in to verify if the changes have been made:
$ hostname
almalinux8
Yes, the changes are updated!
Check that the system boots AlmaLinux kernel by default using command:
$ sudo grubby --info DEFAULT | grep AlmaLinux
Sample output:
title="AlmaLinux (4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64) 8.3 (Purple Manul)"
All good! Start using your AlmaLinux!!
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