Updating Slackware 14.2 to 15.0 Megathread
by upnort from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5E901)
Rather than further clutter the Requests for -current thread, this thread is for Slackers who want to help test updating 14.2 to 15.0. This thread is not for those who choose to perform a fresh install.
This was a preliminary first run test only. Updating was successful.
On my 4-core system with SATA III spinners the full update and package removals took about one hour.
I used a familiar stanza of past releases:
Code:upgradepkg --install-new a/aaa_*.txz
upgradepkg a/pkgtools-*.txz
upgradepkg a/tar-*.txz
upgradepkg a/xz-*.txz
upgradepkg a/findutils-*.txz
for dir in a ap d f k l n t tcl x xap xfce ; do
( cd $dir ; upgradepkg --install-new *.t?z )
doneThen removepkg old packages listed in UPGRADE.TXT.
Please notice I did not install any KDE packages.
The first observation is I use a custom partition layout and my system partition size of 20 GB no longer is sufficient. Even without KDE packages I have only about 2.3 GB free space. I will need to remedy that before testing further or testing KDE packages.
Second observation was launching Xfce. The wallpaper background changed to the default.
Third observation is fonts look rough in Xfce.
I haven't dug further. I did not further test the system, did not look at dot new files, did not test anything for breakage, and did not compile new SBo packages. The good news is updating 14.2 to 15.0 does succeed.
Please contribute and feel free to add suggestions.
This was a preliminary first run test only. Updating was successful.
On my 4-core system with SATA III spinners the full update and package removals took about one hour.
I used a familiar stanza of past releases:
Code:upgradepkg --install-new a/aaa_*.txz
upgradepkg a/pkgtools-*.txz
upgradepkg a/tar-*.txz
upgradepkg a/xz-*.txz
upgradepkg a/findutils-*.txz
for dir in a ap d f k l n t tcl x xap xfce ; do
( cd $dir ; upgradepkg --install-new *.t?z )
doneThen removepkg old packages listed in UPGRADE.TXT.
Please notice I did not install any KDE packages.
The first observation is I use a custom partition layout and my system partition size of 20 GB no longer is sufficient. Even without KDE packages I have only about 2.3 GB free space. I will need to remedy that before testing further or testing KDE packages.
Second observation was launching Xfce. The wallpaper background changed to the default.
Third observation is fonts look rough in Xfce.
I haven't dug further. I did not further test the system, did not look at dot new files, did not test anything for breakage, and did not compile new SBo packages. The good news is updating 14.2 to 15.0 does succeed.
Please contribute and feel free to add suggestions.