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Can I “dist-upgrade” to a newer Slackware release?

April 26, 2017dist-upgrade newer release Slackware

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Can I “dist-upgrade” to a newer Slackware release?

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Yes. See also http://slackwiki.org/Upgrade_Using_Slapt-get. Change your source location within /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc to point to the newer release directory. –update your local package cache, then –dist-upgrade to the newer release. You will also want to disable any third party package sources while upgrading to a newer release due to the fact that third party packages might not be as rigorously tested as official packages, or may cause conflicts with files provided by official packages. For instance, you have the following line as your source: SOURCE=ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-9.0/ Simply change the URL to point to current, like so: SOURCE=ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-current/ CAVEAT: Follow the instructions in UPGRADE.TXT. Now you –dist-upgrade to retrieve the package data for that release. What dist-upgrade does is basically make sure that any missing packages from the base disk set are install