I have just installed swaret, and done as everybody says on here and commented out the Exclude rules in the swaret.conf file. Now I would like to take the plunge and upgrade kde 3.1 to 3.2. I ran get --update let it run, then ran get --upgrade -a (As root of course). A lot of things were downloaded and installed, and when I restarted the computer it looked like it had upgraded the kernel because all of the modules had to be scanned and stuff. Now, I start KDE and it still shows 3.1 on the splash screen, and the control panel still says I am using 3.1.4. Why didnt KDE upgrade? What should I do to get it to work?

Thank you

In swaret.conf, you probably have a line (very near the top) which reads version=9.1. Since 9.1 ships with 3.1.4, that is the newest version it will install.

You need to change the line so it reads version=current. Current is the newest packages available for Slackware - afaik these are the packages which, once the developers are happy they are stable, will form the next version of Slackware.

Run swaret --update then swaret --upgrade -a and let it go. This will take a while as it will update all of your packages to whatever is in current. So the rider on this is "use it at your own risk". I personally have never had a problem with the current packages, but others have reported that they have.

yes! thank you so much. I just ran it and it found many things that needed to be upgraded, so it looks like it is working perfectly.

thanks again for your help and for the quick response,
lbb