On Sunday 05 February 2006 09:48, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Can you please tell me what to do ?. ... Maybe its a too new or too old version ?.
YOU will not be covered here. I would like to outline how to make sure,
Hi Erik, I found the post you were referring to here: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16592.html Excerpt: through YAST, that you have all packages on your system updated to the latest possible version. It's actually quite simple.
It's worth a note, however, to mention that because a lot of these packages
are bleeding edge, slight system instability may occur from performing the updates listed here. It isn't the process, itself, that is risky, Eric... it is all those "bleeding edge" sources the article provided. It would have been much better had Novell/SUSE insisted on a much larger and direct *warning.* The following feedback posted on that page says it all:
This is very interesting, but hardly something that should go into "newbies," unless one enjoys the thought of newbies trashing their systems. Just to see what would happen, I tried this in the lab. The desktop became unuseable, forcing a reimage on the test machine.
As far as repairs go, it isn't like you have a bunch of dependency problems to solve... at least that rpm knows about... you have problematic software installed. I wouldn't know where to start telling you how to reverse all the changes. It's possible, but a chore. You might want to think about wiping the drive, reinstalling and chalking it up to experience... it could be faster. Maybe someone else will have a more optimistic opinion? Good luck & regards, - Carl