From: Steven W.Laird
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