From: Steven W.Laird Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 20:49:22 -0800 Message-Id: <00111220492205.00894@cobra> Subject: Re: [SLE] upgrading to Suse 7.0 On Sunday 12 November 2000 20:29, Charles Yurek wrote:

hey folks

I have been trying to upgrade from suse 6.4 to 7.0 and have had a few problems with certain program that would not install and would error out and stop the upgrade. Some error would give me the error "error getting record libX11.so.6 from //var/lib/rpm/requiredby.rpm" and other times it just says "error" and stops the upgrade. Any help would be appreciated.

thanks chuck

I know that some might disagree, but my experience and others has shown the <<<best>>> results are gained from a fresh install. If /home is on a separate partition, tuck away all your data, remember -- DO NOT FORMAT /home -- and start from scratch. With a major upgrade, I'll make sure the saved data is somewhere like /home/storage. Then I can remove the /home/username directory and start from scratch with all the user configuration stuff as well. Whole lotta work, tho'... -- Steve

From: Jerry Kreps Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 06:47:28 -0600 Message-Id: <00111306472800.22616@JLKreps> Subject: Re: [SLE] upgrading to Suse 7.0 On Sunday 12 November 2000 22:29, Charles Yurek wrote:

hey folks

I have been trying to upgrade from suse 6.4 to 7.0 and have had a few problems with certain program that would not install and would error out and stop the upgrade. Some error would give me the error "error getting record libX11.so.6 from //var/lib/rpm/requiredby.rpm" and other times it just says "error" and stops the upgrade. Any help would be appreciated.

thanks chuck

I wanted to take advantage of the ReiserFS and so I reformated all my partitions except /boot. Other than my stupidities SuSE 7.0 has been working great! KDE2 is also excellent, despite the ocassional crash of some of the apps. JLK