
    Contents

         * 1 Introduction
         * 2 Available installation media
         * 3 The Mageia online repositories
         * 4 Major features in Mageia 2
              + 4.1 Installer
                   o 4.1.1 Generic news
                   o 4.1.2 Stage 1
                        # 4.1.2.1 New flavors
                   o 4.1.3 Stage2
                   o 4.1.4 Rescue
                   o 4.1.5 Misc
              + 4.2 Tools
                   o 4.2.1 drakx-net
                   o 4.2.2 XFdrake
                   o 4.2.3 Bug reporting
                   o 4.2.4 Harddrake
                   o 4.2.5 Unbreakable X11
              + 4.3 Package Management tools
                   o 4.3.1 CLI Package Management Tools
                   o 4.3.2 GUI Package Management Tools
              + 4.4 Mageia system configuration tools
              + 4.5 Available Desktop Environments
                   o 4.5.1 KDE4
                   o 4.5.2 GNOME
                   o 4.5.3 XFCE4
                   o 4.5.4 LXDE
                   o 4.5.5 Razor-Qt
                   o 4.5.6 E17
                   o 4.5.7 Window Managers
              + 4.6 Desktop Applications
                   o 4.6.1 Web Browsers and email clients
                   o 4.6.2 Office
                   o 4.6.3 Communications
                        # 4.6.3.1 Instant Messaging
                        # 4.6.3.2 IRC
                        # 4.6.3.3 VOIP
                        # 4.6.3.4 CCTV Security
                   o 4.6.4 Virtualisation
                   o 4.6.5 Graphics
                   o 4.6.6 Multimedia Applications
                        # 4.6.6.1 Multimedia Players
                        # 4.6.6.2 Multimedia Editors
                        # 4.6.6.3 TV-related Multimedia Applications
                        # 4.6.6.4 Subtitle Editors
                   o 4.6.7 IDEs
              + 4.7 Base System
              + 4.8 X server
                   o 4.8.1 Proprietary graphics cards drivers
         * 5 Upgrading from Mageia 1
              + 5.1 Upgrading via the Internet
                   o 5.1.1 Upgrading online, using mgaonline (GUI)
                   o 5.1.2 Upgrading online, using urpmi (CLI)
              + 5.2 Using the Mageia 2 DVD to Upgrade
         * 6 Notable changes since Mageia 1
              + 6.1 SSH daemon
              + 6.2 MariaDB
              + 6.3 Java browser plugin
         * 7 Obsoleted packages
              + 7.1 Sun Java
              + 7.2 cluster, heartbeat, openais
              + 7.3 MySQL
              + 7.4 pastebin
              + 7.5 k9copy
              + 7.6 google-gadgets

                                  Introduction

   Mageia 2 marks the milestone of a lot of hard work, that started the
   day the Mageia distribution was born.

   This page should help you get an overview of what Mageia offers its
   users.

                          Available installation media

   Mageia has two distinct installation media types:
     * DVD ISO and Dual-arch CD ISO, which use the drakx traditional
       installer and
     * Live CD ISO, a live ISO which can be used to preview the
       distribution and also later be used to install Mageia on your hard
       drive.

   For more information have a look at the installation media page.

   You will always find the download info on the Mageia download page;
   direct (ftp and http) and BitTorrent downloads are available.

                         The Mageia online repositories

   The Mageia software sits in three different repositories/media,
   depending on the type of license applied to each package. Here's an
   overview of those repositories:
     * Core: The Core repository includes packages with free-open-source
       software, i.e. packages licensed under a free-open-source license,
       the set of the "Core" media along with "Core Release" and "Core
       Updates" are available by default.
     * Nonfree: The Nonfree repository includes packages that are
       free-of-charge, i.e. Mageia may redistribute them, but they contain
       closed-source software (hence the name - Nonfree); For example this
       repository includes nVidia and ATI graphics cards proprietary
       drivers, firmware for various Wi-Fi cards... etc. The sets of
       Nonfree media are added by default but they are not enabled by
       default.
     * Tainted: The Tainted repository includes packages under free
       license. The main criteria for placing packages in this repository
       is that they may infringe on patents and copyright laws in some
       countries (e.g. multimedia codecs needed to play various
       audio/video files, packages needed to play commercial video DVD...
       etc); as such the set of the Tainted media is added by default but
       not enabled by default, i.e. it's completely opt-in; so check your
       local laws before using packages from this repository. This
       repository is only added for the convenience of the users. This
       repository is to Mageia what PLF is to Mandriva users or RPM Fusion
       is to Fedora users.

                           Major features in Mageia 2

Installer

  Generic news

   The installer hardware support has been greatly extended.

   The minimal install was reduced from 530Mb (Mandriva 20xx.x or Mageia
   1) down to 325Mb.

  Stage 1

   The stage1 is the first part of the installer, booted from a CD, a DVD,
   a USB key, local hard disk or from the network. Its purpose is to find
   the second stage, which is either the actual installer or the rescue
   system.

   In Mageia 2, stage1 has the following improvements:
     * smaller stage1 (2.5x smaller on x86_64)
     * uses arch-prefixed locations for FTP & HTTP installs (as is already
       done for NFS/CD/HD installs
     * dropped support for KA (Ka Clustering Tools / KaDeploy)
     * uses up-to-date pppd and pppoe
     * handles more PCMCIA controllers
     * fixed crashes probing PCMCIA devices on x86_64
     * support for MIPS & ARM
     * support for install from virtual discs

    New flavors

   Stage1 now comes in two flavors. Eg: for CDs, the traditional boot.iso
   has a new companion, boot-nonfree.iso.

   As in previous releases, boot.iso only contains free drivers &
   software.

   The boot-nonfree.iso includes non-free firmware, needed by some free
   software drivers to work (notably firmware for network/SCSI/... cards),
   as well as non-free network drivers.

  Stage2

   Stage 2 is the second part of the installer. It's the actual installer,
   either graphical or in text mode. Mageia provides:
     * smaller minimal install, smaller basesystem
     * basic systemd support
     * installs lvm2, perl-Hal-Cdroms only if needed
     * installs microcode_ctl automatically when needed
     * installs cpufreq in more cases when useful
     * installs some packages earlier so summary is reached sooner
     * installation using wifi now works
     * better support for brtfs
     * better support for LVM
     * better support for installing through serial line
     * enhanced support for UUID & labels for swap
     * support for nilfs2
     * support hard disks larger than 2.2Tbyte
     * aligns partitions on 1Mb boundaries as newer OSes do in order to
       avoid performance issues with drives with 4k physical sectors
     * working network test
     * working support for XFS as root
     * help texts for the help buttons (in English and seven other
       languages)
     * various other enhancements
     * does not offer to test KMS drivers during installation since they
       won't work because of installer using framebuffer.

  Rescue

   The rescue system now works better (there were some problems in both
   Mandriva 2010.x/2011 & Mageia 1). It has support for :
     * rescuing LV (Logical Volume) systems
     * rescuing encrypted systems
     * rescuing soft RAID systems
     * rescue through serial line
     * rescuing virtual discs
     * support for GPT on hard disks larger than 2.2Tbytes
     * SSH support is included. A Remote Recovery session is possible
       after activating networking and starting the dropbear ssh server. A
       SSH client is also available.

  Misc

   drakx-in-chroot offers GDB support in order to record installer
   coredumps, these can then be debugged in a "real" system.

Tools

   Memory footprint has been reduced for several tools (eg: harddrake2).
   Various crashes were fixed. Hardware support has been extended.

  drakx-net

   The network tools have been adapted to work with systemd. Various small
   bugs relating to interaction with NetworkManger & firewall management
   have been fixed. Squid configuration has been fixed when sharing an
   internet connection (#1353).

  XFdrake

   XFdrake now defaults to 24bit with QXL virtual cards since 16bit mode
   doesn't work. Old Nvidia drivers are disabled since they're not
   supported on newer X11 servers. Support for more virtual gfx cards has
   been added. Support for IA64 is dropped.

  Bug reporting

   drakbug now provides better stack traces in case of segfaulting.
   Collecting this stack frame is quite a lot faster, and also reports the
   theme used as some crashes came from the theme engine.

  Harddrake

   Even more hardware is supported.

  Unbreakable X11

   More explanations are provided when a driver is altered due to
   proprietary drivers not supporting newer X11 servers. When an
   incompatible switch is made (eg proprietary driver to KMS driver), a
   reboot is advised.

Package Management tools

  CLI Package Management Tools

   RPM has been upgraded to 4.9 which makes several operations faster.

   Mageia uses the familiar urpmi. This Command Line Interface (CLI) tool
   is the default RPM package dependency resolver in Mageia and can be
   used to install RPM packages. It can also be used to update the system.
   For full usage details check the urpmi man page.

   The rest of the family are:
     * urpme: used to uninstall RPM packages installed on the system, with
       many command line options
     * urpmf: a tool that may be used to show which package contains a
       certain file; it may also be used to search for all kinds of RPM
       tags (requires, suggests, conflicts, obsoletes) in the packages in
       the official repositories, along with other features
     * urpmq: the urpmi database query tool, think of it as 'rpm -q' but
       with many more extended features, which may be used to check RPM
       packages in the official repositories
     * urpmi.update: a tool to update the urpmi database on the user's
       installation, it can also be used to disable (ignore) configured
       media sources on the system
     * urpmi.addmedia: a tool to add the Mageia media sources (online
       (http, ftp, rsync) and local alike)
     * urpmi.removemedia: a tool to remove the media sources configured on
       the system

  GUI Package Management Tools

   If you're not familiar with, or prefer not to use the CLI, don't worry,
   Mageia offers a complete set of Graphical User Interface (GUI) tools to
   manage packages on the system. The main GUI tool is Rpmdrake (Install &
   Remove Software), available directly from the applications menu/button
   or via the Mageia Control Center, where it teams up with our other
   package management tools.

   The following tools are available from the Mageia Control Center's
   (MCC) Software management area:
     * rpmdrake (Install & Remove Software): this is the default graphical
       front-end to urpmi, which you can use to install packages from the
       official repositories and also to remove/uninstall packages already
       installed on the system. It comes with a useful set of filters, so
       that you can make it only show "Packages with GUI" or only
       "Security updates", etc.

     * drakrpm-edit-media (Configure media sources for install and
       updates): this tool is be used to:
          + Add/remove the urpmi media sources (using the "Add" button
            will make urpmi use the MIRRORLIST, which should pick the
            nearest geographical mirror automatically, or using File ->
            "Add a specific media mirror" to add a specific mirror)
          + Enable/disable any configured media sources
          + Define options from the Options menu. These are the settings
            urpmi will use when downloading packages (such as selecting
            the default downloader, etc.)

     * MageiaUpdate (Update your system): this tool may be used to update
       your system, it updates the urpmi database then checks for any
       available updates

     * mgaonline: Whilst not available on the MCC Software Management
       menu, this related package includes mgaapplet, which is
       auto-started when you login, it checks for updates periodically,
       and notifies you (via a system tray icon) of any updates. You can
       configure how often it checks for updates using mgaapplet-config
       (Configure update frequency).

Mageia system configuration tools

   Mageia continues to use all the familiar drak tools:
     * drakconf: The Mageia Control Center, which can be used to launch
       all sorts of system administration tools
     * drak3d: A tool to configure 3D desktop effects (e.g. Compiz)
     * drakguard: A tool to configure parental control. It can block
       access to web sites and restrict the internet connection to
       specific timeframes
     * rpmdrake: A simple interface that makes it easy to install and
       remove software packages (RPM) in Mageia
     * drakx-net: The default Mageia network tool
     * userdrake: A user-friendly and powerful tool for administering
       users and groups
     * system-config-printer: A powerful printer configuration tool,
       developed by Redhat/Fedora

Available Desktop Environments

   As a desktop-agnostic distribution, Mageia has all the popular desktop
   environments, along with various window managers. Here's an overview:

  KDE4

   Mageia 2 includes KDE SC 4.8.2. This release brings many improvements
   and new features. For more details, check the release announcement.

  GNOME

   Mageia 2 includes GNOME 3.4, with the plethora of popular applications
   that come with it (Totem, Rhythmbox, Epiphany, Evolution, The GNOME
   Archiver (file-roller), Evince, F-Spot... etc).

  XFCE4

   Mageia 2 includes XFCE, with plugins and applications. At the release
   date it was XFCE 4.9, but updates may come later.

  LXDE

   Mageia 2 includes LXDE packages (PCManFM, LXSession, LXTerminal,
   Gpicview, LXRandR).

  Razor-Qt

   Mageia 2 includes razor-qt packages, its an advanced, easy-to-use, and
   fast desktop environment based on Qt technologies.

  E17

   Mageia 2 includes an updated SVN revision (r69188) of E17.

  Window Managers

   Mageia 2 includes various window managers, which in reality are just
   small and very light weight desktop environments:
     * Openbox
     * WindowMaker
     * IceWM
     * Fluxbox
     * Fvwm2
     * Awesome

Desktop Applications

   Mageia 2 ships many of the popular desktop applications, here are the
   highlights.

  Web Browsers and email clients

     * Firefox ESR: Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) 10.0.4 is
       shipped with Mageia 2, this new release brings with it a lot of
       improvements concerning all aspects of Firefox, for more info have
       a look at the Firefox 10.0.4 ESR release notes and you can read
       more about the ESR plan here. There will be no new versions (such
       as 12.0, 13.0 ...) but we will follow the ESR releases to provide
       more stability and less version changes for our users.
     * Chromium-browser: Google Chromium-browser 18.0.1025.168 is shipped
       with Mageia 2, and for user's convenience the Chromium-browser
       comes in three different flavors, stable, beta and unstable, each
       one following a different upstream channel/branch, needless to say
       that beta and unstable are not for the weak of heart!
     * Epiphany: The stable version, 3.4.1, of the GNOME web browser based
       on the webkit rendering engine is available in the Mageia repos
     * Opera: Version 11.64 of the the famous Opera browser is already
       available in the official repositories (in the Nonfree section)
     * IceApe (aka SeaMonkey): IceApe has been removed from Mageia 2
       repositories due to maintainer inactivity and missing updates )
     * KMail: The stable version, 4.8.2, of the famous KDE4 email client
       is shipped in Mageia 2
     * Thunderbird ESR: Thunderbird ESR (Extended Support Release) 10.0.4
       is shipped with Mageia 2, this new release brings with it many
       improvements to all aspects of Thunderbird, the famous email
       client. For more info have a look at the Thunderbird 10.0.4 ESR
       release notes and you can read more about the ESR plan here There
       will be no new versions (such as 12.0, 13.0 ...) but we will follow
       the ESR releases to provide more stability and less version changes
       for our users. Both the Enigmail and Lightning extensions are
       available too.
     * Evolution: The stable version, 3.4.1, of the famous GNOME mailer,
       calendar, contact manager and communications tool is shipped in
       Mageia 2

  Office

     * LibreOffice: Mageia promised to fully support LibreOffice and has
       kept its promise, the stable LibreOffice 3.5 is available the
       Mageia repositories, bringing a full suite of office applications
     * Calligra: The Calligra Suite project is a continuation of the
       KOffice project, it has all the familiar components of KOffice, for
       a detailed list of available applications and what they can do
       check their web site
     * KmyMoney: The stable KmyMoney 4.6.2, personal finance manager for
       KDE4 is already in the online repositories, its mainly focuses on
       being accurate, easy to use and feature-full with all the familiar
       features you'd expect in a finance manager
     * Skrooge : with the philosophy of giving users options, Skrooge
       1.2.0 is available in the Mageia repositories too, a personal
       finance manager for KDE4, it aims to be highly intuitive, while
       providing powerful functions
     * GnuCash: GnuCash 2.4.10 is available in the online repositories,
       it's comes with a check book-like register GUI which allows you to
       enter and track your financial matters

  Communications

    Instant Messaging

     * Kopete: The stable version of the familiar instant messenger, part
       of KDE SC 4.8.2, is available, with support for a wide variety of
       instant messaging protocols
     * Pidgin: The stable version, 2.10.4, of the famous GTK+2.0 based
       instant messaging client is available in the online repositories,
       it supports a plethora of instant messaging protocols, for more
       details about the fixes and improvements this version brings, have
       a look at the changelog
     * Empathy: Empathy is an IM client based on the Telepathy framework,
       Empathy 3.4.1 is shipped with Mageia 2
     * Kadu: An instant messenger compatible with the Gadu-Gadu protocol,
       the stable version, 0.11.3, is shipped in Mageia 2

    IRC

     * Quassel: The stable version, 0.7.4, of Quassel, a Qt-based modern
       distributed IRC client is available in the online repositories
     * Konversation: A feature-full graphical IRC client with KDE support,
       the stable version, 1.4, is available in the Mageia online
       repositories
     * XChat-gnome: A Graphical IRC client for the GNOME desktop, the
       stable version, 0.26.1, is available in the repositories
     * KVIrc A Qt-based IRC client with support for themes, transparency,
       encryption, many extended IRC features, and scripting, the stable
       version, 4.1.3, is available in the repositories

    VOIP

     * QuteCom: A SIP softphone which allows you to make free PC to PC
       video and voice calls, and to integrate all your IM contacts in one
       place, it's Qt-based. The stable version 2.2 is shipped with Mageia
       2
     * Ekiga: A tool to communicate with video and audio over the
       internet. It uses both SIP and H323 protocol and is compatible with
       Microsoft Netmeeting. It used to be called GnomeMeeting. The stable
       version, 3.3.2, is shipped with Mageia 2

    CCTV Security

     * ZoneMinder: A CCTV security package with remote access, motion
       detection and recording.

   ZoneMinder is intended for use in single or multi-camera video security
   applications, including commercial or home CCTV. It supports capture,
   analysis, recording, and monitoring of video data coming from one or
   more video or network cameras attached to a Linux system. ZoneMinder
   also supports web and semi-automatic control of Pan/Tilt/Zoom cameras
   using a variety of protocols. The stable version, 1.25.0 with
   performance enhancing updates thanks to Kfir Itzhak, is available in
   the core and tainted repositories. A quick setup script is included for
   out-of-the-box operation.

  Virtualisation

     * VirtualBox: Version 4.1.12, of the general-purpose full virtualizer
       is available in the Mageia repositories
     * virt-manager: Mageia ships version 0.9.1 of virt-manager ( and
       0.9.10 of libvirtd ), the popular management toolset for
       virtualisation, along with bindings for various languages, to ease
       the management of virtual machines, either based on kvm or xen.

     * WINE: The stable version of WINE, 1.4, is available in the
       repositories.

  Graphics

     * Gimp: The stable version 2.8.0, of the famous GNU Image
       Manipulation Program is shipped with Mageia 2
     * Inkscape: Version 0.48.3.1, of the famous SVG-based vector-drawing
       program is shipped in Mageia 2
     * Blender: The high quality animation studio, version 2.63a, is
       shipped in Mageia 2

  Multimedia Applications

   Mageia comes packed with the most famous multimedia applications of all
   sorts and purposes.

    Multimedia Players

     * Amarok: Version 2.5.0 of the powerful media player for KDE4 is
       available in the repositories, it comes with a plethora of bug
       fixes and improvements, for more details have a look at the 2.5.0
       release notes. This player uses the KDE4 Phonon framework (Mageia
       comes with three Phonon backends: phonon-gstreamer, phonon-vlc and
       phonon-xine)
     * Rhythmbox: Version 2.96 of this Gstreamer-based music management
       application for the GNOME desktop is available in the official
       repositories, for more info about the full range its capabilities,
       have a look at the official web page
     * Totem: Version 3.4 of the Gstreamer-based official movie player of
       the GNOME desktop is available in the official repositories. It
       features a playlist, a full-screen mode, seek and volume controls,
       as well as keyboard navigation
     * VLC: Version 2.0.1 of this famous cross-platform media player is
       available in the official repositories, this package dual-exists in
       both the Core and Tainted repositories[1]
     * MPlayer: Version 1.rc4 (actually an even more recent upstream SVN
       snapshot) of the Swiss-army-knife-like multimedia player is a
       available is the official repositories. With a very wide range of
       capabilities, MPlayer can play all sorts of media files. MPlayer is
       a CLI tool, but various graphical frontends are available (SMPlayer
       (Qt-based), GNOME MPlayer (GTK+-based), KMPlayer (KDE-based)). This
       package exists in both the Core and Tainted repositories[1]
     * XBMC Media Center: Version 11.0 of this famous media player and
       home entertainment system, ​which has been designed to be the
       perfect companion for your HTPC. Supporting an almost endless range
       of remote controls, and combined with its beautiful interface and
       powerful skinning engine.

   [1]Some packages have dual lives, i.e. they exist in both the Core and
   Tainted repositories:
     * The packages in the Core repository support only
       non-patent-encumbered codecs and
     * The packages in the Tainted repository support all the codecs you
       can think of, for the convenience of the users who live in the
       countries where using those codecs doesn't infringe patents or
       local copyright laws.

   Pick the one that's more suitable for you, for more info on the
   criteria used for the repositories in Mageia have a look here.

    Multimedia Editors

     * Avidemux: Version 2.5.6 of this free video editor, designed for
       simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks, supporting many file
       types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4, using a
       variety of codecs, is available in the official repositories
     * Kino: Version 1.3.4 of this GNOME DV-editing utility (record,
       create, edit and play movies recorded with DV camcorders) is
       available in the official repositories
     * OpenShot: Version 1.4.2 of this open-source, non-linear video
       editor for Linux is available in the official repositories, it
       supports many video, audio, and image formats, for a full list of
       features have a look here]

    TV-related Multimedia Applications

     * MythTV: MythTV provides a unified graphical interface for recording
       and viewing television programs, version 0.25 is available in the
       official repositories
     * Miro: An internet TV player with integrated RSS and BitTorrent
       functionality, version 4.0.6 is available in the official
       repositories
     * tvtime: A high quality television application for use with video
       capture cards on Linux systems, version 1.0.2 is available in the
       official repositories
     * FreetuxTV Version 0.6.3 of this free GTK2+ WebTV and Web Radio
       player for Linux is available in the official repositories
     * Me TV: A GNOME desktop application for watching digital television
       services that use the DVB standard. Me TV works with DVB-T, DVB-C,
       DVB-S and ATSC cards that have kernel driver support. Version 1.3.6
       is available in the official repositories.

    Subtitle Editors

     * Gaupol: Editor for text-based subtitle files. It supports multiple
       subtitle file formats and provides means of correcting text and
       timing subtitles to match video, version 0.17.2 is available in the
       official repositories
     * Subtitles Composer: A text-based subtitle editor which supports
       basic operations as well as more advanced ones, version 0.5.3 is
       available in the official repositories

  IDEs

     * Anjuta: A powerful GNOME IDE for C, C++, Python, Java,...
     * Eclipse: The well known IDE for Java and other languages
     * Netbeans: The equally well known alternative for eclipse
     * KDevelop: The KDE IDE

Base System

     * Mageia 2 ships the 3.3 kernel series, specifically 3.3.6 at release
       time, for more details on the improvements in this kernel series
       have a look here; the highlights of this kernel:

X server

     * Mageia 2 ships X server 1.11.4, with full Udev support (Udev
       replaces HAL in this regard)
     * ATI/AMD free radeon driver: Kernel Mode Setting is now enabled by
       default, bringing performance and compatibility improvements.
     * Intel Sandy Bridge (2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3) and Ivy
       Bridge (3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3) support according to
       Intel specifications.
     * Nouveau: the Nouveau driver is used by default for supported nVidia
       graphics cards. It brings Kernel Mode Setting support, 2D
       acceleration, and RandR 1.2 support (for easy multi-monitor setup)

  Proprietary graphics cards drivers

   nVidia 295.49 and ATI (fglrx) 8.961 (12.4) proprietary drivers are
   available in the Nonfree online repository. Old drivers from Nvidia are
   no longer compatible with Xorg. Thus they are disabled in MCC. This
   concerns the 71.86.XX, 96.43.XX and 173.14.XX versions.

                            Upgrading from Mageia 1

   Upgrading from Mageia 1 is supported, and has been fine-tuned over the
   past few months, so it should work. But as always, it's very advisable
   to back up any important data before upgrading and make sure you have
   made all updates of Mageia 1 (such as rpm and urpmi).

   There are several ways to upgrade from one of the previous Mageia
   releases:

   Warning: Upgrading an existing install using a LiveCD is NOT supported
   due to the livecd image being copied "as is" to the target system.

Upgrading via the Internet

   The Mageia update notification applet, Mageia Online, will notify you
   that a new Mageia release is available, and ask if you wish to upgrade.
   If you agree, the upgrade will be carried out from within your Mageia
   installation without any further steps being necessary.

   If you have disabled the applet or it is not automatically running for
   some reason, you can upgrade manually either using the GUI (mgaonline)
   or the CLI (urpmi). Both methods are outlined below.

   First make sure you have the latest updates for your currently running
   release prior to upgrading.

  Upgrading online, using mgaonline (GUI)

   To upgrade run this command as root in terminal:

          killall mgaapplet
          mgaapplet --testing

   Or

          su
          mgaapplet-upgrade-helper --new_distro_version=2

   It will notify you of the availability of the new Mageia 2
   distribution, configure Mageia media sources and start migration.

  Upgrading online, using urpmi (CLI)

   You can also upgrade using urpmi from your favorite terminal emulator.

   Here are the general upgrade steps:
     * Remove all of the existing media sources on your system by
       executing this command as root in terminal:

          su
          urpmi.removemedia -a

     * Add the Mageia online sources, either:
          + Using the MIRRORLIST method (which will select a mirror
            automatically based on your geographical location):

          su
          urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist
          http://mirrors.mageia.org/api/mageia.2.$ARCH.list
          (Where $ARCH is either i586 or x86_64)

     *
          + Using a specific media mirror:

          su
          urpmi.addmedia --distrib <media_url>
          You can get the mirror_url using the Mageia mirrors web
          application

     * Finally start upgrading:

          su
          urpmi --replacefiles --auto-update --auto

   Warning: if you are upgrading remotely using SSH, check that UsePAM is
   enabled in your sshd configuration or your session may be killed in the
   middle of the upgrade. Check the section about SSH daemon for more
   information.

Using the Mageia 2 DVD to Upgrade

   You can use the Mageia 2 DVD to do clean installs but also to upgrade
   from previous releases.

   To upgrade:
     * Download the ISO from the Mageia download page and burn it on a
       DVD, or dump it on a USB stick, for more details have a look at
       Available installation media article
     * Boot the DVD and select "Install Mageia 2" from the GRUB (the
       bootloader) menu
     * Select the Upgrade option in the installer

   It is recommended that the online repositories be set up, if possible,
   during the upgrade as the DVD only includes a subset of the complete
   set of Mageia online repositories.

   On the first reboot use the command line 'urpmi --auto-update' to make
   sure all packages was updated.

                         Notable changes since Mageia 1

SSH daemon

   With SSH daemon, we no longer support using sshd with the UsePAM option
   set to no. If UsePAM is not set to yes you will be warned in your
   syslog and restarting the sshd service will likely kill any active
   sessions. It is recommended that you edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config to check
   that you have the following line :
UsePAM yes

MariaDB

   Due to MySQL being replaced by MariaDB, after upgrading from mga1, the
   mysqld service will not be enabled nor started.

Java browser plugin

   In Mageia 2, the Java OpenJDK plugin for web browsers has been split to
   a separate project named iceadtea-web. To install the Java plugin, you
   need to install the icedtea-web package.

                               Obsoleted packages

   Some packages have been obsoleted in Mageia 2, because they cannot be
   maintained for various reasons. When upgrading from Mageia 1 to Mageia
   2, if you have any of those obsolete packages, they will automatically
   be removed by the task-obsolete package. In the case where you wish to
   continue using an obsolete package, you can add task-obsolete to the
   file /etc/urpmi/skip.list to prevent it from being installed and
   removing obsolete packages.

Sun Java

   Mageia 1 included the proprietary version of Java from Sun-Oracle in
   the nonfree repository. Due to license changes (the retirement of the
   "Operating System Distributor License for Java") it is no longer
   possible to provide new versions of Oracle Java in the repository. It
   is now recommended you use OpenJDK if you need Java, which is now the
   official Java SE7 reference implementation. If you need to use Oracle
   JDK binaries, you can download them from the JRE or the JDK web page.

cluster, heartbeat, openais

   cluster, heartbeat and openais packages have been obsoleted. If you
   need to setup High Availability clusters, it is now recommended you use
   pacemaker and corosync.

MySQL

   MySQL is obsoleted in favor of MariaDB. MariaDB is a drop-in
   replacement for MySQL and it has a much more open development, thus
   containing the patches originating from Google, Facebook, etc... as
   well as more storage engines. All files and servicenames are the same
   as the mysql package and thus the upgrade from MySQL to MariaDB goes
   perfectly.

pastebin

   This package was unmaintained and not working. You may use the
   wgetpaste package instead.

k9copy

   The project development has stopped.

google-gadgets

   Project seems to be dead, with no new versions for two years and no
   recent commits in their source repository.
