Re: [TCLUG:12143] hello

[Gabe Turner <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

Sure...  Up grading packages is easy:

upgradepkg <package name>

If you want to upgrade the entire dist, you boot from your new installation
cdrom and then run pkgtool and pick all the new packages you want to upgrade.
You can also run some of their SlackBuild scripts and recompiling everything.

gabe

> > Download Slackware 7.0 - it's got all the stuff that you need.  And,
> > if it happens to be missing something that you'll actually use, well,
> > then it's just a matter of rubbing two sticks together and getting
> > some well-behaved 1s and 0s.
> 
> Can you upgrade packages in a sane manner yet? Heck, can you upgrade the
> entire dist version at all sanely yet...
> 
> Sorry, not going to touch Slackware again until you can do so. Red Hat
> hath poisoned me with its convienent RPMs...
> 
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Gabe Turner <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>       
U of MN Csci/IT Systems Staff
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