On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 05:34:46AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Now that potato is delayed until next year I think I > should try upgrading to glibc2.1 at least. There are > just too many fine programs out on freshmeat that > require 2.1 over 2.0. I know that it's been posted > before, but I've lost the url... can someone repeat > the procedure to upgrade slink to glibc2.1? I can > live with the 2.0.38 kernel for now, about the only > thing I think I'll miss would be USB and at the moment > I only have a mouse....
IMHO, the safest way to upgrade to glibc 2.1 IS to upgrade to potato. The delay was mainly because of the remaining work needed for boot-floppies, which won't affect those upgrading. 1. Point /etc/apt/sources.list to "unstable" instead of "stable". 2. apt-get update 3. apt-get dist-upgrade Run step 3 repeatedly if you get errors. This may at times be necessary, as the stability of potato varies from day to day. Now is probably a good time as console-data was fixed in yesterday's update and the dependencies for console-apt are now satisfied. I've been running potato on one of my systems for over six months and it's had a few problems but has never been completely hosed. On the other hand, I don't intend to upgrade my remotely-located server box (web, mail, amateur packet radio gateway) until a month or so after potato is released. You could try just installing libc6 2.1.2-10 and its dependencies, but I understand that SOME binaries are not upwardly compatible with the newer version. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen