On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Michael C. Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade Slackware 10.1 to Slackware 13. > > So far, I have determined that upgrading to Slackware 11's glibc is > necessary. Maybe now xz will work? > > I'm getting an error that external command xz cannot be found even > though I can see it under /bin and /usr/bin no problem. How do I > get pkgtool which I have upgraded to the Slackware 13 version to > see it? I have also upgraded tar, had to downgrade it first. I'm > trying to follow UPGRADE.txt and I'm stuck trying to install > findutils. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >
You absolutely can't upgrade from 10.1 to 13 directly. You've got to step from like 10.1 -> 11.1 to 12 -> 13 Pat moved the package format from tgz to xz as it's a far better compression format, in fact I believe Fedora is using it some capacity too. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
