Douglas Mayne wrote:

> I am giving Slackware a try, and I am impressed already.
>
> Here is one thing I ran up against yesterday when upgrading to
> Slackware-current from Slackware-9 using upgradepkg (at runlevel 1).
>
> During the installation of certain packages (in /gnome only), the
> upgradepkg process would go to sleep (permanently), and ps would show only
> one process running: scrollkeeper. Here is my advice in light of this
> problem, before upgrading uninstall scrollkeeper. Run the upgrade, and
> then use installpkg to restore scrollkeeper as the last step.
>
> When scrollkeeper was not running, then the upgrade went very quickly.
>
> --Douglas Mayne

I had issues upgrading packages using upgradepkg to slackware current.
My advice: if you truly want it upgraded, just uninstall and then reinstall
by building from source. In fact, there's a program called "checkinstall"
in the slackware-9.0/extras directory that's quite nice: you can just do a
../configure and then use checkinstall, which will automatically "make" and
"make install", then create a package for easier removal later.
I'm no expert, and granted I probably did the upgrade to
slackware-current improperly, but I've had great success (thanks,
Slackware!) with building from source, so I recommend it.


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