[X Newbies] Panther Upgrade/Unix

[Mike Binstock]

Thanks Tor

Looking forward to Panther, just ordered it.

*crossing fingers* on opensource stuff being ok.


Mike

--- Tor Hildrum <torhildr at mac.com> wrote:
> On 15. des. 2003, at 13.00, Mike Binstock wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > I want to upgrade my old 2000 Imac and my Ibook to
> > Panther but I am concerned that if I do upgrade I
> will
> > loose all my opensource software that I have
> installed
> > in the unix shell, for example Pine, Tintin,
> > Openoffice, etc etc.  Will Panther destroy these
> > programs?  Will I have to reinstall each unix
> program?
> 
> If you upgrade to Panther, it shouldn't. It might be
> that
> you need to recompile some stuff to get it to work,
> but
> as a general rule this shouldn't be required.
> 
> But, based on experience, I would recommend to at
> least perform an Archive and Install. I've done 100+
> "upgrades" from 10.1 -> 10.2 -> 10.3. And, doing the
> upgrades has given me flaky results many times.
> I thus prefer the "clean upgrade" solution you get
> with either an Archive and Install or format +
> install.
> 
> But, alas, YMMV :)
> 
> Tor
> 
> 
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