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. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >
You're gonna have to do a full package upgrade. glibc, the utils and pkgtool itself since there was the compression arch change. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
