Safe method to upgrade your system

Post by **djemos** » 17 Jun 2017 12:52

Switch to root user

su

Run

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slapt-get -u

Run

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slapt-get --upgrade --simulate

And check if glibc and/or other glibc-i18n etc packages were also upgraded in slackware current
If so
Download all updated packages without installing them to slapt-get's working directory; by default, this is /var/slapt-get

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slapt-get -i -d glibc glibc-i18n glibc-profile

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slapt-get -i -d --upgrade

First upgrade glibc and glibc- other related packages

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upgradepkg /var/slapt-get/slackware64/l/glibc-*

Then upgrade the rest

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slapt-get --upgrade

Upgrading the kernel
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ls /var/log/packages/kernel*

to see which kernel packages you have installed and do a slapt-get -i <packagename> for each one of them. (Do not include the package version in <packagename>).
Run update grub otherwise system will be un-bootable.

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update-grub

Then reboot

Now check the http://www.slackel.gr/repo/x86_64/slack ... ngeLog.txt file to see if new packages has been added and which packages has been removed in slackware current. And install new added packages if you need them and also also remove the packages which has been removed from slackware current.