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- | ====== Upgrading Slackware to a New Release ====== | ||
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- | I always use slackpkg (with care) to upgrade my Slackware system. | ||
- | In case you had my versions okf KDE4 packages installed and blacklisted them in "/ | ||
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- | The following steps should work for all situations: | ||
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- | Blacklist the following packages in "/ | ||
- | kernel-generic | ||
- | kernel-generic-smp | ||
- | kernel-huge | ||
- | kernel-huge-smp | ||
- | kernel-modules | ||
- | kernel-modules-smp | ||
- | </ | ||
- | If new kernels have been added, then " | ||
- | Update your "/ | ||
- | You should always be able to boot back into a previous kernel in case the new Slackware kernel gives you a hard time. < | ||
- | # slackpkg update | ||
- | </ | ||
- | Now that slackpkg has updated its internal database we can let it update the computer with the current state of affairs. < | ||
- | # slackpkg install-new | ||
- | # slackpkg upgrade-all | ||
- | # slackpkg clean-system | ||
- | </ | ||
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- | The first of those three commands (install-new) will install every package which is listed in the ChangeLog.txt file as " | ||
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- | The third commmand (clean-system) will show you an overview of all packages which are not part of Slackware Linux at this moment. That means, the list will show any package which has been removed from Slackware like kdeaccessibility, | ||
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- | This is the easiest way to get " | ||
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- | You can trust slackpkg to do it safely, but it will need your brains and care. | ||
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- | ====== Sources ====== | ||
- | * Originally written by [[wiki: | ||
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