Re: <OFFTOPIC> Upgrading [was Hello Chinese student]

Chip Salzenberg (chip@perlsupport.com)
Mon, 9 Nov 1998 15:34:50 -0500

According to Billy Harvey:
> FWIW, debian must have the smoothest upgrade path I've seen. I've
> used it for a couple of years now, and the ability to have a program
> check via ftp and download and install the latest version of prgrams
> in a running system is just excellent.

Agreed 100%.

> It does still have some (small) kinks in it. [...] For example,
> the latest version (3.3.2.3a-7) of xlib6 (with libs for xlib5
> programs, most specifically netscape), doesn't install properly.

Well, in this specific case, you don't need to go backwards. You just
need to remove the spurious symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale and
reinstall the "-7".

-- 
Chip Salzenberg        - a.k.a. -        <chip@perlsupport.com>
      "There -- we made them swerve slightly!"   //MST3K


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