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After I read the release announcement of Salix 13.1.1, I'm trying to update to it from 13.1.0. Thinking that updating the packages using Gslapt package manager is enough, I fired up Gslapt and clicked update. I found some 4-5 package updates, which I installed. For good measure I also tried slapt-get -u, this time there were no package updates. On the release announcement thread I did find that the sources do not have to be changed. So I have the sources from the time I did a clean install of Salix 13.1 (after its release announcement).

When I check (cat /etc/slackware-version), I still find it as Slackware 13.1.0, and I have the following questions:
1. Should I expect that to change (How would I know I'm running 13.1.1)?
2. Am I doing the update correctly, or should I use slapt-get --dist-upgrade?
3. Are there any excluded packages I should be installing prior to the upgrade?
4. Lastly, have I missed the wiki page that has the instructions?

Regards,
Seshadri

sayshh wrote: When I check (cat /etc/slackware-version), I still find it as Slackware 13.1.0, and I have the following questions:
1. Should I expect that to change

Nope, not by doing an upgrade. Only way it will change is to do a clean install from the iso. Or you can edit the file

(How would I know I'm running 13.1.1)?

Well, you'll just know BTW my slackware- version file indicates that I'm running 13.0.0

2. Am I doing the update correctly, or should I use slapt-get --dist-upgrade?

The correct way to upgrade is to do a slapt-get --update first which updates the package database. Then follow it with a slapt-get --upgrade which will then upgrade your system. There no need to use slapt-get --dist-upgrade

3. Are there any excluded packages I should be installing prior to the upgrade?

No, i don't think so but there are a few added packages that upgrading may not have installed like lilosetup,pyxdg, notify-python, libnl, and net-snmp

4. Lastly, have I missed the wiki page that has the instructions?

oh, ok here it is:
slapt-get --update
slapt-get --upgrade
slapt-get -i lilosetup pyxdg notify-python libnl net-snmp

After everything is installed, edit the /etc/slackware-version changing 13.1.0 to 13.1.1

Rich

sayshh wrote:should I use slapt-get --dist-upgrade?

Never use that! See http://salixos.org/wiki/index.php/How_t ... g_packages

I think I've done whatever was required then, but through Gslapt package manager (not from command line). Gslapt | Update | View Upgradeable | selected all of them (I think 5) and | Apply.

I'm not bothered what version slackware-version shows, I was just wondering if that is any indication of whether the upgrade happened or not. So if it's not, I'll leave it as it is.

Thanks a lot for your help. Really appreciate it.

Regards,
Seshadri

slapt-get -i lilosetup pyxdg notify-python libnl-snmp

This is remaining, I'll do that today and update this thread.

This is remaining, I'll do that today and update this thread.

I installed the remaining updates too. Except for "libnl-snmp" (which was not found), everything went fine. Thanks everybody for your help.

I can confirm. I did an upgrade using gslapt and all new features seemed to install except lilosetup. I installed that using the command line suggested above. I also got an error trying to install libnl-smp. After searching, I found libnl and net-snmp. Net-snmp is installed but not libnl.

john

sayshh wrote:

This is remaining, I'll do that today and update this thread.

I installed the remaining updates too. Except for "libnl-snmp" (which was not found), everything went fine. Thanks everybody for your help.

oops, typo, should have been:
slapt-get -i lilosetup pyxdg notify-python libnl net-snmp
I will correct my earlier post

hi, sayssh. about this:

When I check (cat /etc/slackware-version), I still find it as Slackware 13.1.0, and I have the following questions:
1. Should I expect that to change (How would I know I'm running 13.1.1)?

That's fine. You don't need to change anything in that file because "Slackware 13.1.0" is the base of "Salix 13.1.x". The new version is formed by a number of updates and package rebuilds. You only need to update by Gslapt, normally.

Yes, so I have left it as it is. Thanks again all!