Hello, Though I haven't been on the Slak train in a while, I will say from experience with other distros, doing upgrades can be bumpy, and doing one from such distant versions can result in lots of hair-pulling.
Best results are usually from saving your personal data and installing fresh. This prevents any issues similar to what you describe. A good way to do this is to have /home on a separate partition. This way you save everything you want to keep in your /home directory, and you just reformat / (and any other partitions you have). You can backup your configurations in /etc and other places temporarily in /home (I usually do that with tar.gz files). HTH ---------- Matt M. LinuxKnight 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
