{"id":4007,"date":"2019-12-02T22:33:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T22:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=4007"},"modified":"2019-12-02T22:33:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T22:33:20","slug":"mageia-6-end-of-life-time-to-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2019\/12\/02\/mageia-6-end-of-life-time-to-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Mageia 6 End of Life &#8211; Time to Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<h4>As you know, Mageia 7\u00a0was released\u00a0this summer, followed shortly\u00a0after\u00a0by Mageia 7.1. It is time to say goodbye to Mageia 6\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0updates\u00a0have stopped, including security updates.<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>As usual, before the upgrade, do a backup of your data and documents.<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>You have\u00a0a couple of\u00a0ways to\u00a0install\u00a0Mageia 7:<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">1.\u00a0Do\u00a0a clean installation from Classical or Live media. In this case, you will keep\u00a0the\u00a0data in your \/home if it is in a separate partition, as is\u00a0usually\u00a0the case\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0but\u00a0do check!\u00a0The root partition will be formatted\u00a0during the installation process.<\/h4>\n<h3> <\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">2. Upgrade\u00a0from\u00a0the\u00a0command line, as described in our release <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Mageia_7_Release_Notes#Upgrading_from_Mageia_6\">notes<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<h3> <\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">3. Upgrade through the applet in the system tray. This option was disabled until recently as conflicts prevented the upgrade from completing successfully.\u00a0These have been resolved,\u00a0so you will now be offered an upgrade when you next update your Mageia 6 system.<\/h4>\n<h4><br \/>Whichever method you choose, we highly recommend that you upgrade your system,\u00a0as Mageia 6 is no longer supported and is no longer receiving any security updates.<\/h4>\n<h3><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, Mageia 7\u00a0was released\u00a0this summer, followed shortly\u00a0after\u00a0by Mageia 7.1. It is time to say goodbye to Mageia 6\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0updates\u00a0have stopped, including security updates.As usual, before the upgrade, do a backup of your data and documents.You have\u00a0a couple of\u00a0ways to\u00a0install\u00a0Mageia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2019\/12\/02\/mageia-6-end-of-life-time-to-upgrade\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47,124,136,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-mageia-2","category-qa-2","category-updates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p159kA-12D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4015,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions\/4015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}