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SLES 15 SP upgrades

by | Jun 7, 2025 | evilzenscientist

It’s that time of year again.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server roadmap is a great planning resource.

Upgrading from SLES 15 SP5 – and I got the choices of SP6 and SP7, the latter may be late public beta, release candidate or general availability. (Usually non-GA releases are flagged as such, so I suspect that the upstream repos have recently rolled over to GA. I’ll update over the coming week).

The usual zypper migration, resolve some dependency issues (deprecated packages, standalone items to make SLES 15 SP5 useful), accept the EULA, and ten minutes of updates and a reboot later.

Quick and easy.

SLES 15 SP5

by | Jun 24, 2023 | evilzenscientist

Released back in May, this looks to be stable.

Update is (again) super clean:

zypper migration

select the migration target (i.e. SLES 15 SP5), approve the EULA, wait a while.

I’ve been flagging the ease of upgrade for several years. SUSE have this nailed.

Update: except Redis got a tad confused. Needed to get it re-setup to start correctly.

Update again: openSUSE build server saves the day again: Install package openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP5 / php8-redis along with https://citizix.com/how-to-install-configure-redis-6-on-opensuse-leap-15-3

PHP and SLES

by | Jun 28, 2020 | evilzenscientist

I need to look for a “better” solution to PHP and SLES.

I understand the balancing act between long term support, backporting patches etc – and that’s why SLES has been such a good friend.

I’d just love WordPress and other apps to stop griping about older versions of PHP.

SLES 12 SP5

by | Apr 1, 2020 | evilzenscientist

Maintenance night – SLES 12 SP5 updates on Azure.

zypper patch-check

zypper migration

Nice and easy.

Side note – if products somehow get unregistered:

zypper pd

SUSEConnect -p sle-module-legacy/12/x86_64