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10-13-2004, 11:07 PM
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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Washington State
Distribution: SuSE 9.3 / Slackware-Current
Posts: 701
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Quick question about Swaret.
Is it safe to upgrade kde with swaret? Just curious...thanks.
-RoaCh
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10-13-2004, 11:46 PM
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Registered: Oct 2003
Distribution: fedora cor 5 x86_64
Posts: 639
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in slack 9.1 i upgraded from 3.1 to 3.2 with no problems. i dont know if that means its safe per say, but it worked for me...
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10-14-2004, 03:34 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: N. E. England
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian
Posts: 16,298
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it is usually safe. I have used it to upgrade KDE and GNOME, successfully.
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10-14-2004, 03:43 AM
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Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Germany
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 158
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It crashed my sound and some programs wouldn't start after upgrading with swaret ...   I guess is still a beta version or somethin'... I'm not upgrading with swaret no more...my distro is Slack 10 btw |
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10-14-2004, 07:15 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 25
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current is unstable !
If you want have good and fast kde use directory sources - and compile kde from slackbuild scripts
chmod +x name.Slackbuild
./name.Slackbuild
and in /tmp you well by have new packages !
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10-14-2004, 08:01 AM
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Registered: Sep 2004
Distribution: Slack!
Posts: 150
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Not to start a window manager war, but if you want a nice GUI interface for Slackware, give Dropline GNOME a try - it's been specifically tweaked to meet the needs/desires/quirks of us Slackware guys  |
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10-14-2004, 11:40 AM
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Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Mesa, AZ
Distribution: Linux Mint
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It crashed my sound and some programs wouldn't start after upgrading with swaret ... I guess is still a beta version or somethin'... I'm not upgrading with swaret no more...my distro is Slack 10 btw
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I had the same problem, both with Slack 9.1 and 10.0. Upgrading these to Current causes a problem with ALSA. The new ALSA packages were compiled with a newer kernel. Since the kernel isn't updated by default, this will cause problems. Uninstall those ALSA packages and reinstall the Slack 10 ones, and then put alsa* in your EXCLUDE list. I haven't seen any other problems with Slackware-current.
BTW, I didn't have this problem when I upgraded a 9.0 box. |
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10-14-2004, 01:30 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: N. E. England
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian
Posts: 16,298
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you can upgrade the kernel using swaret, you just have to temporarily remove the comments that disable kernel upgrading in /etc/swaret.conf when you know that a new kernel is out and then replace the comment when you are done.
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10-16-2004, 08:05 PM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Washington State
Distribution: SuSE 9.3 / Slackware-Current
Posts: 701
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Hmm..I had no problem updating KDE with swaret...and my sound is fine 
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