Upgrading a Slackware-3.0-like system

S Sigala (sansig@freenet.hut.fi)
Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:48:42 +0200 (MET DST)


(Well, this is not kernel-related, but it may be useful to
someone ;))

This is a short (incomplete) list of stuff that is need
for upgrading a Slackware-3.0-like system to the latest version.
It includes only a few packages, the application and some
libraries are not included (db, gdbm, etc).

### sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/GCC

binutils-2.6.0.12.bin.tar.gz Binutils 2.6.0.12 (as,ld etc)
gcc-2.7.2.bin.tar.gz GNU CC 2.7.2 (ELF and a.out)
ld.so-1.7.14.tar.gz The dynamic linker
libc-5.3.9.bin.tar.gz The C library
libg++-2.7.1.4.bin.tar.gz The C++ library
termcap-2.0.7.tar.gz Termcap 2.0.7
release.binutils-2.6.0.12
release.gcc-2.7.2
release.libc-5.3.9 info (contains the patch for 'make')
release.libg++-2.7.1.4

### sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/kernel

modules-1.3.57.tar.gz Utils the kernel modules

### sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Network/serial

ppp-2.2.0e.tar.gz The pppd daemon and utils for PPP

### sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Status/ps

procps-0.99a.tgz ps, pstree, free, etc

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