[PLUG] Slackware upgrade trouble...

Michael C. Robinson plug_1 at robinson-west.com
Thu Aug 12 23:43:09 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 16:37 -0700, drew wymore wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Michael C. Robinson
> <plug_1 at robinson-west.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to upgrade Slackware 10.1 to Slackware 13.
> >
> > So far, I have determined that upgrading to Slackware 11's glibc is
> > necessary.  Maybe now xz will work?
> >
> > I'm getting an error that external command xz cannot be found even
> > though I can see it under /bin and /usr/bin no problem.  How do I
> > get pkgtool which I have upgraded to the Slackware 13 version to
> > see it?  I have also upgraded tar, had to downgrade it first.  I'm
> > trying to follow UPGRADE.txt and I'm stuck trying to install
> > findutils.
> >
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> 
> You absolutely can't upgrade from 10.1 to 13 directly. You've got to
> step from like 10.1 -> 11.1 to 12 -> 13
> 
> Pat moved the package format from tgz to xz as it's a far better
> compression format, in fact I believe Fedora is using it some capacity
> too.
> 
> Drew-
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Is it just glibc that needs to be upgraded 10.1 to 11.0 to 12.0 to 12.2
to 13?  I hate to have to download the whole Slackware 11, 12, and 12.2
distributions.




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