lesson eight: security upgrades

photo courtesy of that cheeseburger site..

Slackware occasionally has security upgrades, and the smart geek will have signed up to an email service that tells you when there’s a security upgrade available (and you can do this here, if you haven’t already). Today was the turn of something called Ruby, and although i’ve done these upgrades before, i haven’t written notes on it. so. notes:

[normally you need to grab a copy of the security update before you can install it. in my case, Michiel has already downloaded it, and my machine is set to look to his for a mirror, so this is not something i have to worry about.]

open a terminal.

switch to root with sudo -i, and type in your password (note to self: user password!)

type slackpkg update and let it run.

type slackpkg upgrade-all and let that run.

Wait for the blue screen with the list of files that need upgrading to pop up. make sure they’re selected and press “OK”. then let the upgrade run.

Et Voila! upgrades are done.

now type exit twice, once to log out of root, once to close the Terminal.