Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

[Bill Anderson <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Mathhew. Zen and are were having issues. SMART is faster and works.

Bill Anderson

Matthew Downs wrote:
> Hello Kevin. :)
> 
> kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Hi List;
>>
>> I posted to the suse-linux-e list with no response. Maybe that was the
>> wrong list to start with?
>>
>> Yesterday pulled down the remastered 10.1 DVD ISO and installed 10.1
>> on a laptop I have to see if Its ready for me to upgrade. The install
>> went fine however I am somewhat confused by the new zen updater
>> instead of my SuSE Watcher.
>>
>> So, I have a few questions:
>>
>> - Does the zen updater pull only patches & fixes like the SuSE Watcher
>> did ? If not where do I now get these types of updates?
>>
>> - What's the best way to update my system, does the zen updater do it
>> all ? or is there a better/easier to manage method?
>>
>> - Both zen updater and Yast Sources only list my DVD drive. Where can
>> I find a list of 10.2 repositories for both the zen updater and yast ?
>> Do they both accept the same repos?
>>
>> I guess the short question is - how do I keep my system up to date and
>> where can I find step by step (im kinda slow) documentation on how to
>> configure my new 10.1 box for updates?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance...
>>
>> /Kevin
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> 
> When you installed the system, did you test your network configuration
> by, first, downloading the new release notes and, second, configure the
> updater (can't remember the exact wording of this step...but you should
> have noticed a bit of a wait while your machine setup a local update
> repository for your system)?  If you did those things, then Zen is good
> to go for keeping your system up to date with critical patches and whatnot.
> 
> The rest of your system (i.e. latest versions of programs like amaroK
> and such), though, still needs some configuration.  My suggestion would
> be to check out Guru's version of SMART package manager.  Download the
> program and the GUI rpms from his site and install them using Zen.  (You
> can, of course, install the version of SMART that came with the SUSE
> DVD, but Guru's version has some repository information already
> included, which the SUSE version does not).)  Then open up SMART, which
> is under Utilities->Configuration.  In SMART, click on the icon with two
> blue arrows on the left, which will update the repo package info, and
> then click on the icon with the green arrow, which will update your
> system.  Sit back while it does its thing, and after it's done you'll be
> good to go.
> 
> Hope this helps.
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