Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (47 mails)

[Tom Corr <tcorr@xxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 16 December 2006 20:47, you wrote:
if it helps, i upgraded from suse 10.1 to opensuse 10.2 without a problem.  
actually, it was probably one of the smoothest/nicest upgrades ever.  
MPlayer, as always, caused me some problem, but it was quickly resolved by 
adding the packman.unixheads.com as an installation source, and then 
installing MPlayer from there.

Perhaps you should try to delete all of the offending packages from your 
system, and then just re-apply them from there appropriate installation 
sources after the upgrade.

> I generally do a new install rather than an upgrade.  The few times I have
> tried an upgrade it took me quite a long time to get my system working.
>
> I have the following partitions that I overwrite (format) when I install an
> new version.
> /      ( break out out /tmp and /var since the growth of them is
> uncontrolled) /tmp
> /var
>
> I do not overwrite the following partitions
> /home
> /st1        (storage partition for files that want to save but not in home)
>
> If you have made a lot of hand changes to files in /etc save that directory
> as well.  I can reinstall my desktop system in about 4 hours and get back
> to a fully functional system.
>
> Have a good day.
>
> William
>
> On Saturday 16 December 2006 8:21 pm, Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas wrote:
> > Today I received my 10.2 x64 DVD from Cheapbytes.  When I tried to
> > upgrade from my 10.0 to 10.2, the dependency checker seemed to hang.
> > Namely, after the dependency window popped, I tried to resolve all
> > dependencies manually.  Eventually, I believe I did.  Then, after
> > hitting "Accept" to proceed with the upgrade, an ***EMPTY***
> > dependencies window popped up.  Since it showed no dependencies or
> > conflicts, I hit "Cancel" and then "Accept" in the YAST window to
> > proceed.  The dependencies window popped up again, empty.  From there
> > on, I got stuck in this loop.
> >
> > My original 10.0 x64 was the retail version.  Since installing it, I
> > updated several packages via apt-get and smart.  (Some of them appeared
> > locked in the YAST window; in one of my iterations, I manually unlocked
> > them, but that did not help as I was caught in the same loop as
> > described above.)  The DVD I just got is Opensuse.  Could that create a
> > problem?  Will I have to install 10.0 from scratch?  Should I upgrade to
> > 10.1 first and then 10.2?
> >
> > TIA for your time.
>
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