On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Michael C. Robinson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>> >
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>> 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.
>>
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> 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.
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You're gonna have to do a full package upgrade. glibc, the utils and
pkgtool itself since there was the compression arch change.

Drew-
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