Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
Running 10.3, KDE3 on a 64 bit system.
I have always used Smart and Apt before that for many years. Lately Smart has been trying to download i586 packages to me. So I figured I would use Yast Online Update and give it a try.
It did it's thing refreshing, caching, etc. etc. then dumped me into what looks like the Software Management screen. Can't figure out what to do from there. I see some packages are marked in red. Looks like they are the ones to be upgraded. Must I go through all of the different package groups, patches, etc and mark each one individualy for upgrade?
No, in online update, just start it, let it do its thing and then just click "Accept" and yast takes care of all the rest for you. Yast package management is excellent. Use "software management" to add/remove or update "packages". "online update" provides "patches" when released. One extremely good aspect of software management is to update all applications from either a single repository or for your whole system. Dependency management is automatic. The only hiccups will be when you have installed a newer package from a 3rd party repo like packman that provides a dependency like xine-libs instead of libxine. You will get some weird proposed solutions. However, rest assured that those conflicts are relatively rare. I've only run across a handful in 5 years. Is there not some way to say
OK, upgrade everything you found?
Bob S
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