upgrading slackware 13.1 to 13.37 – Experiences With Open Source

Here are the instructions of upgrading slackware according to slacwkare tutorial.
1. Open your terminal (start – system – terminal) type init 1 to change the environment to single user mode
$init 1
2. Login as root
3. Upgrade the main installation which is

upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/pkgtools-*.tgz
upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/tar-*.tgz
upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/xz-*.tgz
upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/findutils-*.txz
upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/glibc-solibs-*.t?z

4. Now install everything

upgradepkg --install-new /root/slackware/*/*.t?z

or if you want to miss the KDEI language package, just run the script which contains :

    #!/bin/sh
    for dir in a ap d e f k kde l n t tcl x xap y ; do
      ( cd $dir ; upgradepkg --install-new *.t?z )
    done

5. remove old packages. The easy one is take a look into /var/log/package

 ls -lt | less

6. do the script

removepkg util-linux-ng guidance-power-manager eggdbus iptraf \
      libXTrap libXprintAppUtil libXprintUtil libxkbui rstart trapproto \
      xf86rushproto xfindproxy xfwp xplsprinters xprehashprinterlist \
      xproxymanagementprotocol xsetmode xsetpointer xtrap 

    Note the removal of util-linux-ng!  You better make sure that the
    renamed util-linux package is installed before removing that.

7. Fix the config file. There is also a script for that. It will rename the extension new config file to the regular file by copy the old one into bak file.

 #!/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 $configfile $(echo $configfile | rev | cut -f 2- -d . | rev)
       fi
     done

8. Make sure the /etc/lilo.conf is contain the right path. Or do this command to make sure the lilo installed to the MBR.
/sbin/lilo

9. back to init 3 and reboot

It should work.

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