How to Migrate CentOS to Oracle Linux
Oracle Linux is Free 100% binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, same as CentOS. Unlike RHEL, Oracle Linux is free even for commercial use. Oracle only charges if you need support.
Oracle provides a script to convert CentOS to Oracle Linux
https://github.com/oracle/centos2ol
This script support CentOS 6, CentOS 7 and CentOS 8.
Before you can run the convert script, make sure you have updated the system to the latest version with yum or dnf and take a backup in case anything goes wrong.
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yum update |
Download update centos2ol script
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wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oracle/centos2ol/main/centos2ol.sh |
Convert your CentOS installation to Oracle Linux with the command
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bash centos2ol.sh -V |
Reboot the server
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reboot |