Hello All!

What is the way of upgrading Slackware 14.1 that has installed the multilib 32-bit libraries to Slackware 14.2? Are there any precautions or other considerations?

Thanks!
Mojo

The two do not interfere.

First upgrade your Slackware to 14.2 and be sure to also upgrade the Slackware gcc and glibc packages (replacing the multilib versions of Slackware 14.1).
Then upgrade all the multilib packages using the 14.2 repository and in doing so, replace the Slackware gcc and glibc packages again with their multilib versions.

There will be additional multilib "compat32" packages for Slackware 14.2 that you did not have for Slackware 14.1, so be sure to install those new packages.

If you do this manually, then:
will upgrade what's already on your system and install what you did not yet have.

If you use slackpkg enhanced with slackpkg+ then it would become something like:
to upgrade what you already have, followed by installation of any new package you did not yet have.

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