On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 16:37 -0700, drew wymore wrote: > 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
Is it just glibc that needs to be upgraded 10.1 to 11.0 to 12.0 to 12.2 to 13? I hate to have to download the whole Slackware 11, 12, and 12.2 distributions. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
