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Hi all,
my parents' computer runs arch. The latest update should be from the end of 2015. As I currently don't have access to the machine, I'm wondering how to upgrade the machine after 2016-04-23?
Edit: I'm referring to this news:
https://www.archlinux.org/news/required … 016-04-23/
Last edited by knue (2016-04-20 15:51:30)
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I don't recall anything that would cause problems with an update in that time period.
Edit: Oh, you're talking about the announcement on the front page. Personally, I would use the Arch Linux Archive to update the system to sometime this week. You might be able to get away with just updating pacman first, but I can't guarantee that.
Last edited by Scimmia (2016-04-20 13:54:09)
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Thanks. I'll try that.
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While I would not encourage others to do what I did, my experiece does show that the last 6 months have been very easy to handle even on a server running many heavily-used services.
So a normal home computer running arch should have no problem updating to an archive of yesterday, for example. And from there you'd be set for a proper -Syu with pacman 5.
"UNIX is simple and coherent..." - Dennis Ritchie, "GNU's Not UNIX" - Richard Stallman
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