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Upgrade-0.4-0.5

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Preamble

The aim of this howto is to show how you can upgr 1000 ade a Frugalware-0.4 system to Frugalware-0.5.

Upgrading the system

Type the usual

pacman -Syu

to upgrade the system.

Upgrading GRUB

Since there is a newer version of GRUB in 0.5 than in 0.4, you have to run grubconfig to upgrade it.

Now run

grubconfig

and follow the instructions.

Rebooting

Since the kernel is newer in 0.5 than in 0.4, you have to reboot your machine now.

User groups

Frugalware-0.5 introduces 2 new groups: 'netdev' and 'storage'. netdev is used by avahi. If you want to allow mounting usb sticks for a user, then add it to the storage group. New users are added to these two groups by default, you may want to add your existing users to these groups by the

usermod -a -G storage username

command.

nvidia

If you have problems with upgrading the nvidia package, please see this news entry

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