Slackware :: Easy Way To Update 12 To 12.2?
Jan 26, 2010
I currently have a VPS(virtual private server) that runs Slackware 12. The image was made way back in 2007, and obviously it hasn't been updated.The version is VERY minimal, it doesn't even have all the packages from A, but I can get any I want and install as I wish.Is there an easy way to update 12 to 12.2? Going to 13 is probably out of the question without a clean install over a network and doing it remotely, which is probably beyond my capabilities.I can't mess with the kernel unfortunately, but I can install practically any packages.
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Jun 27, 2010
Which cataloging app would you recommend? I have ebooks in pdf, chm, epub etc. Currently testing tellico. Tags fetching and auto opening the book would be a bonus.
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Jun 25, 2010
I've never quite understood why they won't like Firefox just update on it's own. Instead it appears all of the FF updates always have to come through the update manager. 3.6.4 has been out since Tuesday and while I can go to the FF website and grab the tar of the new version I'd rather you know just upgrade my existing version like I've already easily done in Windows.
Seriously if this was a security flaw update and we had to wait this long you'd think people would be up in arms. Luckly 3.6.4 is mainly just extra functionality.
Still am I just left at the mercy of whenever it appears in the update stream or is there an easy way to update what I already have installed verses having two versions of FF?
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Nov 20, 2010
I am looking at satellite navigation (for the car) and wonder which one (TomTom, Garmin etc.) is easiest to update with Linux. I assume I would want to update maps, speed cameras etc. every few months. Also which system offers the most free services? I don't want to find I have to pay extra for this that and the other; I just want a one-off cost that includes the basics/most common services.
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May 13, 2010
im looking for a slackware based distro that is basically recompiled and easy to install.
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Dec 20, 2010
Are there any quick and easy ways to find all of the dependencies required for a package to be installed, so that we dont have to spent a lot of time searching for each package or downloading them individually?
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Apr 22, 2011
better to be ignorant now, than a lifetime ...What better way to update the aaa_elflibs "slackware-current" now?
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Jan 28, 2011
after 3 failure install gnome slackbuild (GSB) im try install with kde i dont like kde but there is no escape my kde lock like windows 98 [URL]..
Q1 - How to update to the last release ??
Q2 how to install last release of xfce and run it ??
Q3 - how to update all system ??
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Mar 9, 2011
After I upgrade my slackware to current(kernel 2.6.35.11),X could not start.My video card is ATI Radeon HD 4570.and I do reinstall fglrx like old ways :
Code:
./ati-driver-installer-11-2-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg
and
Code:
installpkg fglrx-*******.tgz
But after restart, X could not start,and Keyboard does not respond. Also ,when I try init 3 and remove xorg.conf,The X can start with a low resolution(1024X768).In console mode,I got a high resolution(1366X768). So,is there a confict between fglrx and new kernel or What have I done Wrong?
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Nov 23, 2010
does anyone knows if an update of pidgin will appears on the 13.1 branch ? I guess it will be updated on the -current branch but for now there's that SSL certificate error that flood the screen with popups...
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Aug 31, 2010
it doesn't look like I can copy and past my way to updating slack like I did in the past
reinstalling has the advantage of installing software that was not included in 13.0
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Jan 31, 2010
At yesterday night i run a slackpkg update and then slackpkg upgrade-all. i deselect all kernel related entries,and all others ( dont remeber precisely, but approx 15 - 20 packages, i e kde related) i get to update.
After that i shut system down and going to sleep. today i start my eeepc 900 with slackware 13.0 after that update and see i cannot run "Terminal" link on desktop. ok, go to "start", "system", "konsole terminal". from first look in konsole window i see whatever not ok - window background is grey, not black as usual.
when i run mc in this window, look like a monitor contrast is set to minimum, and brightness to maximum - very hard to see files, etc. all is very much light and small contrast.
I check kde windows - all its ok, brightness and contrast in konkueror windows and overall is ok -as same as previously times. i switch to ctrl-alt-f6 to native console - again, all is ok - background is black, all is ok.
i e problem is only with Konsole-Terminal under KDE. looks for configfiles / etc - nothing faund. no man entry for terminal nur console.
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Mar 18, 2011
[URL] I am trying to update alsa from version 1.0.21 to 1.0.24 and am having some issues. While trying to build the alsa until I get an error. I've been googling around and so far have found nothing. I was getting more errors earlier but that was solved by installing xmlto.
Code:
root@Jacob:/home/ethan/Downloads/alsa-utils-1.0.24.2# make
Making all in include
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ethan/Downloads/alsa-utils-1.0.24.2/include'
make all-am
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ethan/Downloads/alsa-utils-1.0.24.2/include'
[code]....
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May 5, 2010
Attempting to do so gives the following:
Firefox could not install the file at [URL]
because: Unexpected installation error Review the Error Console log for more details. -203
When I review the error console log I get the following:
Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE) [nsIMIMEService.getTypeFromURI]" nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)" location: "JS frame :: file:///home/josh/.mozilla/firefox/3xogq1ay.default/extensions/%7Be0204bd5-9d31-402b-a99d-a6aa8ffebdca%7D/components/external-app-blocker.js :: anonymous :: line 126" data: no]
Source File: file:///home/josh/.mozilla/firefox/3xogq1ay.default/extensions/%7Be0204bd5-9d31-402b-a99d-a6aa8ffebdca%7D/components/external-app-blocker.js
Line: 126
The specific files will change, but the error is consistent.
I have full read and write permissions, as well as execute permissions for all relevant mozilla files, so what could be the problem?
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Jun 13, 2010
I'm not sure how you do it, but it seems like you should be able to. How do you upgrade the version to 13 without burning a new CD? I just used slackpkg update, slackpkg upgrade-all, but when I tried install-new it had nothing to do.
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Feb 23, 2011
I installed slackware 12.0 on one partition of my pc. but slackware 13.1 has been released, how should i update my system to 13.1?
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Dec 3, 2010
after i update to -current 30 nov, inkscape cannot run. Code: inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: libMagick++.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory and there are other error (friends of mine problem) inkscape in slackware. this is the error
Code:
(inkscape:9005): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_misc_set_alignment: assertion `GTK_IS_MISC (misc)' failed Emergency save activated! Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now. If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can fix it. Segmentation fault
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Feb 12, 2011
I am using slackware64-current and this morning I have updated my system with using slackpkg. (As you know, huge changes has been applied on the current branch. Kernel, glibc and etc..) Everything went flawness and seems OK. I did not see any error message or somethink like this. After the update, kde does not start. Problem is, after KDM login, nothing happens and turn back to KDM login screen.
To understand what is going on, I switched to init 3 and performed "startx" command. Result is same but I saw some dbus error.
Then I checked whether hald and dbus does run or not and I saw it is running without problem.
Lastly I have removed dbus and hald packages and reinstalled but problem is still running.
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Jul 29, 2011
Judging by the big red box (Vulnerability Warning) on the libpng homepage, a security update is available.
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Feb 16, 2011
I'm in a bit of a pickle here:
After upgrading to current, I lost my video ... On boot I see the console until missage like this code...
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May 15, 2010
after update to tle latest -current using slackpkg my slackware not boot. After hit enter after bootprompt the pc restart.
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Sep 20, 2010
I am advised by my application about a security update "Thunderbird 3.1.4", but when I go to the slackbuilds, I don't find it.
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Mar 18, 2011
I was using the Slack 13.1, and when I change the mirror to Current and upgrade (and reboot after this) my Slackware stops in the Message "Loading Linux" and makes a million of beeps.
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Jun 9, 2011
I use Slackware from version 12.0 When i have two write something more formal the choice is always Latex. But as we all know the TEX version presented in Slackware is no longer supported (since 2009), I produce some report that used algorithmic package and in Windows generates correctly (last TexLive) but in Slackware64 13.34 give error because don't understand some macros.
We all know that the tex version is outdated, and TexLive may be too big, but I'm starting this thread so we could find a solution.
For example MiKTeX can be a suitable substitute?
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Jan 26, 2010
I have just updated current to get the new kernel and things seem to have gone just a little wrong.After upgrading i edited lilo.conf and ran all seemed fine so i rebooted to find my pc wont boot it cannot find modules and there will be trouble ahead it think it says (will check the error and add it).So i thought no problem i can just boot from an old disk i have laying around and fix it from there. I only had the 12.2 install disk or ubuntu 8.10 live cd neither of witch support ext4 which i stupidly decided to format my drives in.
Anyways i now have a ubuntu 9.10 disk and have booted and try to fix things but am miffed at whats going on. If i chroot into my slack root and look in my /boot there is only the old files before the update, but if i mount the drive in ubuntu there are the new files from after the update.What has happened and how can i fix it? It has just occurred to me i could use a tmp dir and copy the correct /boot files there then in the chroot copy them to /boot may work ?
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May 17, 2010
I want my system to email me when there is an update available via slackpkg. I decided to try a bash script to do the notification. So I started down this route:
VAR = $(slackpkg check-updates)
VAR1 = "No news is good news "
if [ "$VAR" = "$VAR1" ] then; . . .
I keep getting an error on the string comparison. I am guessing the variable types are different but I can't figure out how to fix it. Does anyone know how I can fix this script or accomplish the task at hand.
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Dec 16, 2010
So I installed the latest Thunderbird security update without bothering to check what version it was and found that I had "up"graded from 2 to 3. Despite selecting 'no synchronization' on all my archived Gmail labels it still started downloading many gigabytes of archived email. In Thunderbird 2 I had just the headers of the archive and that suited me fine. So a warning about installing the latest updates without checking and a question: Is there a Thunderbird 2 package for slackware 13.1?
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Oct 11, 2010
how do I up date old slack build scripts the one I have in mind is this one [URL] I'm running slackware64-13.1 multilib this script was I think written slack 11
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Jan 10, 2011
How often do you have to update your nvidia drivers? Do any patches ever mess them up?
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Jun 15, 2010
When I want to play a flac-file, I've used always Audacious on my slackware64 13.0-pc because xmms doesn't work with that filetype.
Now I've installed slackware 13.1 on an 2nd pc and there I can play flac-files in xmms.
What do I have to do to enable xmms on my slackware64 13,0-pc to play there flac-files with xmms also?
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