[ale] Upgrading mishaps. (cont)

[Eric Z. Ayers]

Michael,

It sounds to me like what you need to do is install a more recent
distribution like Red Hat 5.2 6.0 or SuSE 6.1 if you want to get all
of your stuff working.  I did a slackware upgrade from 2.0 to 2.2
once.  After about 2 days of work, I got about 75% of the stuff I used 
from day to day working again.  It just isn't worth it.  The problem
is that your system is going to be full of crap you don't need, old
versions of stuff that is broken, etc. Resistance is futile, you will
be assimilated!

-Eric.

Michael B Golden writes:
 > Okay, since this morning I've been playing around some more and have
 > discovered some more casualties.
 > 
 > 1. UMSDOS
 > 	UMSDOS has been acting strange now. In my home directory when I
 > press tab for command completion, it inserts "umsdos_readdir_x:linux/inux
 > negative after link" and then completes it. It is quite annoying. It only
 > does it in my home directory though.
 > 
 > 2. PS
 > 	ps has also been acting up. The display is different, and it acts
 > strangely. It is version 2.0.2 now. I tried going back to kernel 2.0.34
 > to compare the look, but it complains about /boot/system.map (I think)
 > having the wrong kernel version, and then it does the same thing as 2.2.6
 > did.
 > 
 > 3. Netscape
 > 	Before the upgrades, and actually during the upgrades, (I
 > downloaded with netscape) Netscape worked just fine. I just barely tried
 > it and it tells me:
 > 
 > netscape: can't load library 'libg++.so.27'
 > 
 > What did I upgrade that got rid of that, and how can I get it back?
 > 
 > 4. I'm sure there will be others, so please listen in when I find them.
 > 
 > I am pleased with the performance of 2.2 though. X loads a bit faster,
 > and the distributed.net rc5des client is signifigantly faster. Emacs
 > loads a slight bit faster, and I can't compare Netscape, because I broke
 > it. Can anyone help me fix it?
 > 
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