thanx slapt-get installation via make & make install went easy so was almost going to go upgrading will be more carful and go abit more slowly --- Marco Bonetti <marco.bonetti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 7/10/07, 2g wrote: > > and am under the partial(non-x) installed 11.0 > > does slapt-get act like aptitude if i do the dist-upgrade? > > (i mean i want to keep the system CUI oriented) > IMHO you shouldn't have any problem, however keep in mind that > Slackware and Slackinosh aren't born as automatic dependencies > resolving distributions ;-) if I'd were you I'll take a look at > Slackware's UPGRADE.TXT ( > http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware/UPGRADE.TXT ), especially the > sections about removed packages and newer addictions. > > A quick and dirty how to would be: > + upgrade core system (glibc and so on) > + removepkg removed packages > + upgradepkg */*.tgz (not installed will be skipped) > + installpkg newer required packages and new additions you'd like to > have 2g--- http://micro.ispretty.com -------------------------------------- Easy + Joy + Powerful = Yahoo! Bookmarks x Toolbar http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/toolbar/