... written by gapan. I came across these issues: when running slapt-get -i glibc glibc-zoneinfo glibc-i18n aaa_glibc-solibs this is stated on the screen before exiting: ... install/doinst.sh: line 122: syntax ...

No. Do not remove aaa_elflibs. First install aaa_glibc-solibs and next aaa_libraries. If you add SOURCE=http://www.slackel.gr/repo/x86_64/slackware-current/:OFFICIAL ...

... these packages, and install them manually using installpkg: install aaa_glibc-solibs install aaa_libraries Do I also need to remove the existing glibc-solibs first? And ...

... maybe fix the problem. Read in the end of this message first. aaa_glibc-solibs has to installed first. The deps from http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/slackware-15.0 ...

Updating Slackel it turned out a package "glibc-solibs" does not exist, maybe aaa_glibc-solibs? That one was updated by the upgrade command, ...

Updating Slackel it turned out a package "glibc-solibs" does not exist, maybe aaa_glibc-solibs? That one was updated by the upgrade command, so it should not be a problem (I think).

... sudo slapt-get -u sudo slapt-get --upgrade sudo slapt-get -i aaa_base glibc glibc-solibs glibc-i18n kernel-firmware to upgrade to the latest kernel and also update grub type ...

... Reading Package Lists...Done The following packages have been EXCLUDED: glibc glibc-i18n glibc-profile glibc-solibs glibc-zoneinfo kernel-firmware kernel-headers kernel-huge kernel-modules kernel-source ...

... gettext-tools getty-ps giflib gimp glew glib glib-networking glib2 glibc glibc-i18n glibc-profile glibc-solibs glibc-zoneinfo glibmm glproto glu gmime gmm gmp gnu-cobol gnupg gnutls gperf gpm grep ...

spkg has been updated by gapan to avoid that an upgrade of glibc-solibs lead to an usable system, see this thread.

To avoid any issue type as root (before upgrading the system as a whole):