Thanks to Salix, an update from Slackware 12.2 went smoothly. One tweak solved a minor annoyance: in the urxvt terminal, the HOME and END keys behaved differently in the 'less' pager.
To restore the traditional key functions, these lines can be saved as a file named $HOME/.lesskey (for use with the 'lesskey' command):
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#command
\e[1~ goto-line
\e[4~ goto-end
To apply those changes, the full 'lesskey' syntax for a single user is:
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lesskey -o $HOME/.less $HOME/.lesskey
To apply system-wide the syntax is:
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lesskey -o /etc/sysless $HOME/.lesskey
That system-wide command may require 'sudo' or 'su' depending on your user permissions.
One note of caution: the 'lesskey' command will overwrite any existing lesskey definitions.
An earlier posting mentioned a similar tweak:
> viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2009&p=12901&hilit=less+home+end#p12901
However, in Fluxbox 13.37 the HOME and END keys work fine everywhere except in the 'less' pager, so the 'lesskey' approach detailed above seems to be a more targeted solution.
Hope this info may be helpful to others.
Regards,
jayseye