Yay, new release for you Slackers!
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| flufferbeer Feb 06, 2022 2:41 PM EDT |
15.0 now out as of 2022-02-02.... whoopee!! http://www.slackware.com/announce/15.0.php |
| jdixon Feb 06, 2022 4:13 PM EDT |
The upgrade.txt file sounds fun. Slackware 14.2 to 15.0 Upgrade HOWTO <volkerdi@slackware.com> This document explains how to upgrade from Slackware 14.2 to Slackware 15.0. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For details of important changes from Slackware 14.2 to 15.0, see the file 'CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT'. Thanks to Robby Workman for help with this. Before you begin, I would strongly recommend making a backup of your system, or, if not the entire system, at least the /etc directory. You might find that you need to refer to a few things after the upgrade process is complete. Back it up, or take your chances. OK, now that everything is safely backed up, let's proceed. :-) To do this, you'll need the Slackware 15.0 packages. If these are on a DVD, create a new directory to mount the DVD on so that it doesn't get in the way during the upgrade: mkdir /packages mount /dev/cdrom /packages The packages don't have to be on a DVD, as an alternative you could copy the slackware directory (the one with the various package subdirectories in it, basically the "slackware" or "slackware64" directory from the install disc) to someplace like /root/slackware/. The important thing is that you know where the slackware packages directory is. We'll use /root/slackware in the following examples. 0. Put your machine in single-user mode: telinit 1 Note that this is _not_ strictly required, and there have been reports of success remotely upgrading machines that are still in multiuser mode. However, more things can go wrong in multiuser, so especially if you're considering a remote upgrade in multiuser mode, you might want to clone the machine locally so that you can do a test run to uncover any problem areas and come up with workarounds for them. 1. Upgrade your glibc shared libraries. This is important, or things might go haywire during the next part of the upgrade: upgradepkg --install-new /root/slackware/a/aaa_glibc-solibs-*.txz 2. Upgrade your package utilities and related tools: upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/pkgtools-*.txz upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/tar-*.txz upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/xz-*.txz upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/findutils-*.txz 3. Upgrade everything else (and install new packages): upgradepkg --install-new --terse /root/slackware/*/*.t?z 4. Remove obsolete packages. The CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT file should have a list of these. You may also wish to go into /var/lib/pkgtools/packages and take a look at the package list: ls -lt | less You may spot some old, obsolete, or discontinued packages. If so, you can remove these using 'removepkg'. This command will get rid of the packages which became obsolete since Slackware 14.2 or were introduced during the 15.0 development cycle and later removed: removepkg --terse ConsoleKit2 PyQt Thunar aaa_elflibs amarok amor ash automoc4 bigreqsproto calligra-l10n-bs calligra-l10n-ca calligra-l10n-ca@valencia calligra-l10n-cs calligra-l10n-da calligra-l10n-de calligra-l10n-el calligra-l10n-en_GB calligra-l10n-es calligra-l10n-et calligra-l10n-fi calligra-l10n-fr calligra-l10n-gl calligra-l10n-hu calligra-l10n-it calligra-l10n-ja calligra-l10n-kk calligra-l10n-nb calligra-l10n-nl calligra-l10n-pl calligra-l10n-pt calligra-l10n-pt_BR calligra-l10n-ru calligra-l10n-sk calligra-l10n-sv calligra-l10n-tr calligra-l10n-uk calligra-l10n-zh_CN calligra-l10n-zh_TW cargo cgmanager compositeproto damageproto db42 db44 dirmngr dmxproto dri2proto dri3proto eigen2 eject evieext fixesproto fontcacheproto fontsproto gcc-java getty-ps glade3 glibc-solibs glproto gnome-themes-standard gnu-cobol gst-plugins-base0 gst-plugins-good0 gstreamer0 gtk-xfce-engine herqq idnkit ilmbase imapd inputproto intel-gpu-tools js185 kaccessible kajongg kaudiocreator kbproto kde-base-artwork kde-baseapps kde-l10n-ar kde-l10n-bg kde-l10n-bs kde-l10n-ca kde-l10n-ca@valencia kde-l10n-cs kde-l10n-da kde-l10n-de kde-l10n-el kde-l10n-en_GB kde-l10n-es kde-l10n-et kde-l10n-eu kde-l10n-fa kde-l10n-fi kde-l10n-fr kde-l10n-ga kde-l10n-gl kde-l10n-he kde-l10n-hi kde-l10n-hr kde-l10n-hu kde-l10n-ia kde-l10n-id kde-l10n-is kde-l10n-it kde-l10n-ja kde-l10n-kk kde-l10n-km kde-l10n-ko kde-l10n-lt kde-l10n-lv kde-l10n-mr kde-l10n-nb kde-l10n-nds kde-l10n-nl kde-l10n-nn kde-l10n-pa kde-l10n-pl kde-l10n-pt kde-l10n-pt_BR kde-l10n-ro kde-l10n-ru kde-l10n-sk kde-l10n-sl kde-l10n-sr kde-l10n-sv kde-l10n-tr kde-l10n-ug kde-l10n-uk kde-l10n-wa kde-l10n-zh_CN kde-l10n-zh_TW kde-runtime kde-wallpapers kde-workspace kdeartwork kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer kdelibs kdenetwork-strigi-analyzers kdepim kdepim-apps-libs kdepimlibs kdesdk-strigi-analyzers kdevelop-php kdevelop-php-docs kdevplatform kdewebdev keybinder kgamma kio-mtp klettres korundum kplayer kppp kremotecontrol ksaneplugin ksnapshot ksysguard ktuberling ktux kuser kwebkitpart lha libXfont libart_lgpl libbluedevil libcroco libkdeedu libkgeomap liblastfm libmcs libmm-qt libmowgli libmsn libnm-qt libtermcap libva-intel-driver libwmf-docs mailx man mkfontdir mozjs52 mozjs60 mozjs68 mplayerthumbs nepomuk-core nepomuk-widgets notify-python openldap-client openssl10 openssl10-solibs orage oxygen-icons pairs perlkde perlqt phonon-gstreamer pm-utils presentproto printproto pth pykde4 pyrex python python-enum34 qca-qt5 qimageblitz qjson qt qt-gstreamer qtruby qtscriptgenerator randrproto raptor2 rasqal recordproto redland renderproto resourceproto rfkill rxvt scim scim-anthy scim-hangul scim-input-pad scim-m17n scim-pinyin scim-tables scrnsaverproto seamonkey-solibs sendmail sendmail-cf slocate smokegen smokekde smokeqt soprano strigi superkaramba tetex tetex-doc transfig trn urwid videoproto virtuoso-ose wicd-kde wireless-tools workbone xcmiscproto xextproto xf86-video-xgi xf86-video-xgixp xf86bigfontproto xf86dgaproto xf86driproto xf86miscproto xf86vidmodeproto xfractint xineramaproto xproto xv 5. Fix your config files. Some of the config files in /etc are going to need your attention. You'll find the new incoming config files on your system with the ".new" extension. You may need to fill these in with information from your old config files and then move them over. Feel brave? You can use this little script to install most of the .new config files in /etc. If you've made any local changes you'll need to add them to the newly installed files. Your old config files will be copied to *.bak. Anyway, it might be an easier starting point. Here it is: #!/bin/sh cd /etc find . -name "*.new" | while read configfile ; do if [ ! "$configfile" = "./rc.d/rc.inet1.conf.new" -a ! "$configfile" = "./rc.d/rc.local.new" -a ! "$configfile" = "./group.new" -a ! "$configfile" = "./passwd.new" -a ! "$configfile" = "./shadow.new" ]; then cp -a $(echo $configfile | rev | cut -f 2- -d . | rev) $(echo $configfile | rev | cut -f 2- -d . | rev).bak 2> /dev/null mv --verbose $configfile $(echo $configfile | rev | cut -f 2- -d . | rev) fi done You might also wish to move this config file over: /usr/share/vim/vimrc.new 6. IMPORTANT! *Before* attempting to reboot your system, you will need to make sure that the bootloader has been updated for the new kernel! First, be sure your initrd is up to date (if you use one). You can build a new initrd automatically by running the geninitrd script: # geninitrd If you use LILO, make sure the paths in /etc/lilo.conf point to a valid kernel and then type 'lilo' to reinstall LILO. If you use a USB memory stick to boot, copy the new kernel to it in place of the old one. If you are using elilo on a machine with UEFI BIOS, run the eliloconfig command to install the new kernel and initrd to the EFI System Partition. 7. Return to multi-user mode: telinit 3 8. Reboot to start using the new kernel. At this point you should be running Slackware 15.0. :-) I wish everyone good luck with this! --- Patrick Volkerding volkerdi@slackware.com Yeah, this is going to take a while. :) |
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