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Re: Slackware 1996 (was: Swap server .)



Erez Strauss <strauss@actcom.co.il> wrote:
|Amos,
|
| In case you'll report that some (more then 5) updates from the 0.93R6
|to the latest 1.1 were OK. I'll install it [....rest deleted - AS]

Don't know for sure how much it counts, but here is an "upgrade report":

I got tired from not being able to read Hebrew under Netscape, so I
fetched the latest Netscape Gold 3.0b4 and a Debian package designed
to install it, and simply ran "dpkg -i netscape".  Netscape didn't
come up stright away because it had missing elf librarys.

Fine, "ldd netscape" and "dpkg -L" found me what packages I need to
upgrade, a look at the "Packages" file told me where the files are in
the Debian distribution hierarchy.  ftp/dpkg cycle and Netscape runs.

Next time I boot X refuses to run - turned out I overwrote some
librarys, fine ftp/dpkg and I have a newer xbase package, but it still
doesn't run.

After an hour-worth of trials (spread ocross a couple of days, had an
exam today) I found that it looks like the newer server somehow
removed some of the old base fonts when it was installed - guess
what?: ftp/dpkg and it's all back to business (right now it's my first
session with the new setup).

Oh, forgot, fvwm also had to be upgraded, fine - ftp/dpkg.

Emacs 19.29 also stopped working because it wanted the old libraries.
(need I say it again? ftp/dpkg and it's back.  Fetched the opportunity
to upgrade to 19.31).

Now I'm a bit short in space, so I wrote a little script to compute
how much space is taken by given packages (have yet to fix something)
and I plan to remove unnecessary packages ("dpkg --purge").  I wander
how can you achive this with Slackware?

|
| I currently concider changing the distribution in Hi-Tech and other
|places.
| I also looking for some good distribution for the new computer. I
|think about the RedHat-3.0.3 as a starting point ? any ideas why not ?

My only experience with RedHat was at the show.  It looked fine but I
can't pass judgment on it right now.

BTW, don't remember if I told you that, but "egrep -c ^Package: Packages"
gives 478 packages.

Debian 1.1 is expected to be released today at noon (Pacific time?).

Cheers,

--Amos

--Amos Shapira                    | "Of course Australia was marked for
133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st.          |  glory, for its people had been chosen
Jerusalem 93 805                  |  by the finest judges in England."
ISRAEL             amos@dsi.co.il |                     -- Anonymous


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