{"id":4219,"date":"2012-12-20T23:11:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T15:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/?p=4219"},"modified":"2023-04-28T09:48:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T09:48:57","slug":"how-to-upgrade-from-centos-6-2-to-centos-6-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/how-to-upgrade-from-centos-6-2-to-centos-6-3\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Upgrade from CentOS 6.2 to CentOS 6.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/linux-centos-6.3-150x144.jpg\" alt=\"linux centos 6.3\" width=\"150\" height=\"144\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3859 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/144;\" \/>CentOS 6.3 had released on 2012-07-09 with the kernel version 2.6.32-279. CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by our Upstream OS Provider (UOP).<br \/>\nFor version CentOS-4.x and CentOS-5.x, it is recommend to reinstall rather than attempt an inplace upgrade from CentOS-4 or CentOS-5 to CentOS 6.3. Direct upgrade from CentOS 6.x to CentOS-6.3 for i386 and x86_64 Architectures is highly recommendeded. The &#8216;yum update&#8217; should move your machine seamlessly from any previous CentOS-6.x release to CentOS-6.3, unless you have edited your yum configs. Follow this steps to upgrade the CentOS-6.x to CentOS6.3<\/p>\n<p>Check older version :<\/p>\n<pre>\n[root@host1 ~]# cat \/etc\/redhat-release\nCentOS release 6.2 (Final)\n<\/pre>\n<pre>\nor\n<\/pre>\n<pre>\n[root@host1 ~]# cat \/etc\/issue\nCentOS release 6.2 (Final)\nKernel \\r on an \\m\n<\/pre>\n<p>Official way to do upgrade:<\/p>\n<pre>\n[root@host1 ~]# yum clean all\n[root@host1 ~]# yum update -y\n[root@host1 ~]# reboot\n<\/pre>\n<p>Check latest version :<\/p>\n<pre>\n[root@host1 ~]# cat \/etc\/redhat-release\nCentOS release 6.3 (Final)\n<\/pre>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<pre>\n[root@host1 ~]# cat \/etc\/issue\nCentOS release 6.3 (Final)\nKernel \\r on an \\m\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CentOS 6.3 had released on 2012-07-09 with the kernel version 2.6.32-279. CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by our Upstream OS Provider&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[1244,1254,1536,1944],"class_list":["post-4219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centos","tag-centos","tag-centos-6-3","tag-linux","tag-yum-repositories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}