Richard Bos wrote:
Op zondag 26 september 2004 00:54, schreef Osho GG:
I would ideally prefer just to use the package management that comes with the distro. Suse should make it easy enough so that all packagers can use it.
Besides that suse supports only what they can support, and that is what suse officially releases. Anything else is not supported and will of course not be encourage by suse via yast (kde being the exception).
Well i guess it's time to try apt, because twice now i have tried to use YaST2/YOU to update my Suse 9.1 Pro (clean install on AMD 2.4g, Asus A7S333, 512 M ram, kern 2.6.4-52-deflt), and i end up with a hair-tearing mess where none of the YaST modules work,(they start & die in 20 secs), my mouse is jerky, etc. I tried two auto repairs (boot fm DVD) which seemed to do the right things but a mess remains! Prior i did successful NVidia & Modem updates ok. It goes bad with Suse YOU. Am back to sending this on Win98 and really sore at Suse's update farce. Guess it means a total re-install or just walk away from Suse Linux. Error logs don't tell me what went wrong, as i did a manual, selective YOU and it seemed to update some 20 programs (KDE, Yast, security) ok. If some kind soul has ideas to try, please advise. Am going to bed as this has really got to me (Suse 8.0 was better, stable & predictable). Thanks for any help, BrianB.