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12-11-2013, 10:21 PM
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Registered: Oct 2009
Location: St. Louis, MO, USA
Distribution: Slackware64 Live
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14 Multilib to 14.1...any gotchas?
I am currently getting ready to upgrade from 14.0 to 14.1 Slackware64. I am multilib ready with 32bit as well.
Are they any gotchas or things I should be looking out for when I upgrade?
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12-12-2013, 04:45 PM
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Slackware Contributor
Registered: Sep 2005
Location: Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 8,559
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Nothing can go wrong. If you do a Slackware upgrade without any consideration to multilib, that may be the easiest first step. Replacing the old multilib gcc and glibc with the stock 64-bit Slackware 14.1 versions will of course break multilib but that's easily fixed.
Download the new set of multilib packages for Slackware 14.1 and run "upgradepkg --install-new" on every package - including the stuff you'll find in the "slackware64-compat32" subdirectory.
Everything will magically work again after reboot.
Eric
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12-12-2013, 05:33 PM
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Location: Paris, France
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Alien Bob
Nothing can go wrong.
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Hmm. I'm sure you know first Murphy's law:
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Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
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But maybe you didn't know the corollary:
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Even if nothing can go wrong, something will.
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Oh, and how about this one (it's in French, sorry, but I know you'll understand it :-) |
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12-12-2013, 05:45 PM
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Slackware Contributor
Registered: Sep 2005
Location: Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Distribution: Slackware
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You're probably making fun of my post, but it may be setting the OP off on the wrong foot.
It really is a simple upgrade process.
Eric
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12-12-2013, 06:01 PM
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Registered: Nov 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Alien Bob
It really is a simple upgrade process.
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I have no doubt about that and I hope that my humorist mood didn't set the OP off on the wrong foot.
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 12-12-2013 at 06:19 PM.
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