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knue

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Registered: 2011-10-11

Posts: 25

[SOLVED] How to upgrade an old installation after 2016-04-23?

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)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] How to upgrade an old installation after 2016-04-23?

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)

knue

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Registered: 2011-10-11

Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED] How to upgrade an old installation after 2016-04-23?

Thanks. I'll try that.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: [SOLVED] How to upgrade an old installation after 2016-04-23?

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.

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