Hi,

I just installed Slackware 11 (released October 2, 2006).
Does that mean I only need to apply security updates issued after October 2, 2006?

Do I only need to visit the Slackware Linux Security Advisories (http://www.slackware.com/security/) and download all Security Updates including and after October 2, 2006?

The first security update after the release of Slackware 11 is:
- 2006-10-25 - [slackware-security] qt (SSA:2006-298-01)

So, I'll install that update.

Then, I'll work my way up the list to the next update which is:
- 2006-11-03 - [slackware-security] screen (SSA:2006-307-02)

So, I'll install that update.

And I'll keep going up the list until I get to the final update as of today which is:
- 2007-05-16 - [slackware-security] libpng (SSA:2007-136-01)

Is that the idea?

I apologize if this was answered but I did search and I found tons of information on how to use the package system that Slackware has. I just couldn't find the exact steps to take after installation. I guess the steps to take to update an OS is simple after installing Windows or Ubuntu. The user just clicks something like "Update the OS". But for Slackware you need to know more. I just can't locate this piece of the puzzle!

Thank you for your time and help.

To catch up with all security patches you can install the packages from the patches folder located on your favorite mirror site.

http://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub...-11.0/patches/

There's even a PACKAGES.TXT file describing the packages.

Yeah, do the above ^^^

(I was a bit late in posting)

Hi,

Thanks for your help!

A simple way to do it is...

1. Use a shell (cd to a good directory to download first eg ~/patches) and ftp into a slackware mirror (username is anonymous and password is non-existent just hit enter)
2. cd to your versions patch folder
3. turn off prompting
4. get all the tgz packages
5. exit the ftp
6. upgrade the packages and reinstall if you got repeats (reinstall is something I do you can just pick which packages you need to update by hand)
7. Sit back and wait. Then you are done. Other things to check are any programs installed out of extra (mysql, php, ktorrent, firefox 2.0 etc)

At least I think this is simple. Especially when you are trying to patch an older version of Slackware with a lot of packages.

Hi bassmadrigal,

Thanks for the additional information.

Have a great day!

In fine Slackware tradition, you have been shown how to do this manually. An alternative is to install the slackpkg package in the extra directory. Choose your mirror (uncomment 1 line) in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors and you can stay current with:

which does pretty much the same thing as what was suggested by bassmadrigal, with the addition that it analyses the package lists to tell you if there are packages you should upgrade and what they are.

Brian

Note that installing the Slack 11 seamonkey-1.1.1-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz update removes a number of links in /usr/lib needed by gxine (libmozjs.so libnspr4.so libplc4.so libplds4.so). Installing mozilla-nss-3.9.2-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz puts libraries in place of most of the removed links, but /usr/lib/libmozjs.so is still missing. I found
cd /usr/lib; ln -s firefox/libmozjs.so .
to be a suitable workaround. Previously, that link was to seamonkey-1.0.8/libmozjs.so
However, seamonkey 1.1.1's libmozjs.so doesn't work with gxine which is why I used the firefox variant.

ric,

I thought this deserved it's own thread. Please see my answer at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=555163.

Brian

A more reliable way is just

Hi H_TeXMeX_H,

Thank you!
And thanks to everyone else who helped.