Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3785 mails)

[js <fyrbrds@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry Feldman wrote:

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> On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 19:50:53 +0200
> js <fyrbrds@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > You can only upgrade the maintenance releases through yast, not the 
> > latest version number.  To do that, you need to download the packages 
> > from suse's website.  You'll have to install them manually.
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> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> You may need to download them manually, but you can upgrade them using
> YaST. Actually, if you use Konqueror:
> If you go to this URL:
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.2/base/.link/kdebase3.rpm
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> Konqueror will present you with a button, "Install package with YaST".


This is not what he meant.  He wants yast to upgrade him with the update 
function.  This won't work.  The konqueror install you refer to is 
different entirely and can be done at the command line with...
"yast -i /path/to/rpm/yadayada-1.i386.rpm"
SuSE recommends this method instead of direct use of rpm because yast 
tracks which rpms it installs versus those installed by rpm.  At least 
it did a couple versions ago.  I assume it still does.

John S.