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01-31-2006, 11:12 AM
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa
Distribution: Raspbian, Mint 13, Slackware 14, Debian & Ubuntu
Posts: 105
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Can I upgrade from 9.0 to 10.2 via the Internet?
I am in South Africa, my server is in the USofA at linode.com and it is running slackware 9.0 and I would like to get to Current without having to upload my 10.2 CD.
Therefore could I upgrade, via upgradepkg, directly from Slackware's site ?
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01-31-2006, 11:32 AM
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Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Distribution: Slackware-Current / Debian
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swaret will allow you to upgrade to whatever version you would like (I personally use Current), but be careful as upgrading remotely could be dangerous. Nothing like SSHd not wanting to start and you're half way across the globe...
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02-01-2006, 06:13 AM
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa
Distribution: Raspbian, Mint 13, Slackware 14, Debian & Ubuntu
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Please tell me more about how to use swaret to do an upgrade.
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02-01-2006, 07:35 AM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa
Distribution: Raspbian, Mint 13, Slackware 14, Debian & Ubuntu
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Sorry, let me reword that. What mirror local to linode do you use. I suspect that using one of the European mirrors is not a great idea.
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02-01-2006, 12:42 PM
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Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Distribution: Slackware-Current / Debian
Posts: 795
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Any will work 
Install Swaret, edit /etc/swaret.conf for your tastes, then 'swaret --update' and 'swaret --upgrade' |
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