Re: Flame the noob time - How to upgrade On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 22:27:50 +0000,
Eugene <nospam@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> If I'm running 9.1 can I just upgrade in place or
> do I have to do a new install of 10?
You can upgrade in place if you want. See UPGRADE.TXT on your favourite
Slackware mirror.
> I see some talking about just using Swaret to upgrade all the packages
> but others say it won't find any new packages added to 10.
AFAIK, it will (although I've never used swaret.) It might not upgrade
the X packages however (due to the name change from XFree to X11). You
can use removepkg and installpkg to fix this.
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Mark Hill <mrhill@gmail.com> |