[PLUG] Slackware upgrade trouble...
Matt McKenzie
lnxknight at gmail.com
Fri Aug 13 00:00:53 UTC 2010
Hello,
Though I haven't been on the Slak train in a while, I will say from
experience with other distros, doing upgrades can be bumpy, and doing one
from such distant versions can result in lots of hair-pulling.
Best results are usually from saving your personal data and installing
fresh. This prevents any issues similar to what you describe.
A good way to do this is to have /home on a separate partition. This way
you save everything you want to keep in your /home directory, and you just
reformat / (and any other partitions you have). You can backup your
configurations in /etc and other places temporarily in /home (I usually do
that with tar.gz files).
HTH
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Matt M.
LinuxKnight
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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