upgrading suse 8.1personal to 8.1 pro using you.
On Friday 07 February 2003 11:47 pm, Catsquotl wrote:
Hello,
Is this possible? If so is there a how-to?
Not w/ you (as far as I've heard) One of the diferences between editions is the books if I understand correctly. I've always purchased pro versions, I like books on paper! If I were going to try what (it sounds like) you want to do I would probably just install apt4suse, read the instructions and then go for a full upgrade (except kernel, ximian, mantel-kernel, mozilla). Once this was done install Synaptic and select whatever packages you want, then apt/synaptic will work out the dependencies. Note that SuSE doesn't endorse or include apt4suse, so right there you will have moved away from the Professional version. More importantly, pay attention to what aptor synaptic say they will uninstall, if you see potential problems rethink your strategy. I did a full install of SuSE8.1 Profesional (w/ a ton of packages), did the yast online update, installed apt4suse and figured out how to use it, then ran apt-get update, apt-get -s upgrade, apt-get upgrade. At this point I just let things go for 2 or 3 days (1200 packages upgraded) until it finished. I'm on cable but I'm sure a phone line modem would not have slowed things down at all :-( Undoubtably part of my success was patience, part was due to a fresh install, part redundency, and part in having nothing to lose (due to it being a fresh install). As always your results may vary, this was an unprofessional driver on a closed course! Good luck. -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!
On Saturday 08 February 2003 08:23 am, David Herman wrote: -----------snip-------------
As always your results may vary, this was an unprofessional driver on a closed course!
I forgot to mention that I run /sbin/SuSEconfig after each apt-get upgrade and after synaptic package installs, just to make sure that the system knows whats going on.
Good luck. -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!
-- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!
Where can one find this apt4suse program? On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 09:23, David Herman wrote:
On Friday 07 February 2003 11:47 pm, Catsquotl wrote:
Hello,
Is this possible? If so is there a how-to?
Not w/ you (as far as I've heard)
One of the diferences between editions is the books if I understand correctly. I've always purchased pro versions, I like books on paper!
If I were going to try what (it sounds like) you want to do I would probably just install apt4suse, read the instructions and then go for a full upgrade (except kernel, ximian, mantel-kernel, mozilla). Once this was done install Synaptic and select whatever packages you want, then apt/synaptic will work out the dependencies.
Note that SuSE doesn't endorse or include apt4suse, so right there you will have moved away from the Professional version.
More importantly, pay attention to what aptor synaptic say they will uninstall, if you see potential problems rethink your strategy.
I did a full install of SuSE8.1 Profesional (w/ a ton of packages), did the yast online update, installed apt4suse and figured out how to use it, then ran apt-get update, apt-get -s upgrade, apt-get upgrade. At this point I just let things go for 2 or 3 days (1200 packages upgraded) until it finished. I'm on cable but I'm sure a phone line modem would not have slowed things down at all :-(
Undoubtably part of my success was patience, part was due to a fresh install, part redundency, and part in having nothing to lose (due to it being a fresh install).
As always your results may vary, this was an unprofessional driver on a closed course!
Good luck. -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!
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William Westfall
* William Westfall (wgwestfall@ToughGuy.net) [030208 13:27]: ->Where can one find this apt4suse program? -> It's apt4rpm and you can find it at http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.
On Saturday 08 February 2003 4:25 pm, William Westfall wrote:
Where can one find this apt4suse program?
for info go here: http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ for apt,apt-devel and synaptic go here http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/
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