1. Preamble

The aim of this howto is to show how you can upgrade a Frugalware-0.7 (Sayshell) system to Frugalware-0.8 (Kalgan).

2. pacman-g2

Kalgan comes with an improved (both in features and in speed) pacman-g2, so the first step is to install it:

# pacman-g2 -Sy pacman-g2
Note
 Don't worry, this will upgrade glibc, too. This is expected.

3. Removing obsolete packages

Some software has been marked as obsolete in Kalgan. To remove them:

# pacman-g2 -Rd gst-plugins-bad-nas gst-plugins-bad-opengl
Note
 Of course if you don't have these packages (which is not the default) you can skip this step.

4. Upgrading the system

Now it's time to upgrade the system itself:

# pacman-g2 -Su

You will be asked to replace and/or remove a few packages automatically. The following ones are normal and you are expected to answer Y to these questions (or just hit ENTER):

:: Starting local database upgrade...
:: Replace frugalpkg with frugalware/gfpm? [Y/n]
:: Replace perl-xml with frugalware/perl-xml-parser? [Y/n]
:: Replace xf86-video-i810 with frugalware/xf86-video-intel? [Y/n]
:: Replace xespgs with frugalware/xghostscript? [Y/n]
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts (750/750)             [#######################] 100%
:: perl conflicts with perl-io-zlib. Remove perl-io-zlib? [Y/n]
:: perl conflicts with perl-io-compress-zlib. Remove perl-io-compress-zlib? [Y/n]
:: perl conflicts with perl-io-compress-base. Remove perl-io-compress-base? [Y/n]
:: perl conflicts with perl-extutils-cbuilder. Remove perl-extutils-cbuilder? [Y/n]
:: perl conflicts with perl-compress-zlib. Remove perl-compress-zlib? [Y/n]
:: perl conflicts with perl-compress-raw-zlib. Remove perl-compress-raw-zlib? [Y/n]

After this the list of to-be-upgraded packages is displayed. Just hit enter and wait. Make some tea, it can take a while :-)

5. The reboot

Since the kernel is upgraded, too, you have to reboot your machine again.

Done!