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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 20th Aug 2006 14:33 UTC, submitted by Tommy Borgen

Patrick Volkerding, Slackware's benevolent dictator for life, has 'released' Slackware Linux 11.0 Release Candidate 2. From the changelog: "This is mostly frozen now unless bugs (or irresistible upgrades) come up, so I'll call this update Slackware 11.0 release candidate 2."

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RE: can't wait

by HagerR15 on Mon 21st Aug 2006 01:22 UTC in reply to "can't wait"

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2005-07-25

Slackware only breaks (in my experience) when you do an upgrade via swaret or slackpkg and don't read the changelog. Quite often a package will be split into two or three smaller packages along the way and the upgrade will not install the newly created packages.

For example, Jul 26,2006 x11-6.9.0, Patrick removed freetype and fontconfig into seperate packages. If you only perform an upgrade of x11, your system will no longer have freetype or fontconfig installed. You need to read the changelog with every update and manually add those packages that have been split off into individual packages.

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