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fl0 03-21-2013 04:12 PM

Upgrade from 14 -> current broken?
 
Hi,

i have a fresh slackware64 14 installation and try to upgrade to -current, i follow the usual steps:

Quote:

2. Upgrade your package utilities and related tools:

upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/pkgtools-*.tgz
upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/tar-*.tgz
upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/xz-*.tgz
upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/findutils-*.txz

and i got these error:
Code:

koch@trav:~/slackware-tree/slackware-current$ sudo /sbin/upgradepkg slackware/a/pkgtools-*.tgz
Password:

+==============================================================================
| Skipping package pkgtools-14.0-noarch-2 (already installed)
+==============================================================================

koch@trav:~/slackware-tree/slackware-current$ sudo /sbin/upgradepkg slackware/a/tar-*.tgz

+==============================================================================
| Upgrading tar-1.26-x86_64-1 package using slackware/a/tar-1.26-i486-1.tgz
+==============================================================================

Pre-installing package tar-1.26-i486-1...

Removing package /var/log/packages/tar-1.26-x86_64-1-upgraded-2013-03-21,22:04:37...

/sbin/installpkg: line 115: /usr/bin/tar: No such file or directory
WARNING: pkgtools are unstable with tar > 1.13.
        You should provide a "tar-1.13" in your $PATH.
Verifying package tar-1.26-i486-1.tgz.
Unable to install slackware/a/tar-1.26-i486-1.tgz:  tar archive is corrupt (tar returned error code 127)
Package tar-1.26-x86_64-1 upgraded with new package slackware/a/tar-1.26-i486-1.tgz.


fl0 03-21-2013 04:34 PM

ok , my fault, missed the glibc update before, installed a temporary tar and redo all steps, now it works better

slackcode 03-21-2013 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fl0 (Post 4916209)
ok , my fault, missed the glibc update before, installed a temporary tar and redo all steps, now it works better

use slackpkg

titopoquito 03-21-2013 07:27 PM

You noticed that you mixed up x86 and x86_64 packages?

fl0 03-22-2013 06:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by titopoquito (Post 4916273)
You noticed that you mixed up x86 and x86_64 packages?

ähm wtf .. , you are right i think this was the real problem.


regards fl0


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