On Saturday 16 August 2008 12:41:33 Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 08:28 +0100, Philip Burness wrote:
OpenSuse updater in my panel is showing 170 optional upgrades, when I select ?all and then hit install it does nothing. ?When I go into Yast - online update I can not see the upgrade packages. ? ?I'm running SuSe 11.0 ? ?How can I upgrade to the new versions? ? ?Thanks ?Phil
Right, online update will search for patches. The reason why it's not installing is probably a dependency issue somewhere. Apparently if updater is asked a question, it gets confused.
Go into Yast --> Software Management and search for them, you don't have to search for the whole word, I'm sure alot of them are libs and kde packages, but if a dependency option box pops up, that's the problem.
Can't. Tried that and I get the same message - can't access package database due to it's claims that another program is accessing it - checking top disputes this. I tried to DL the rpm/rpm-delta for the update repo and issue and "rpm -Uhv *.rpm --replacefiles --replacespkgs" and it spits out cpio errors with the packages...
Also I noticed there's one package, and I can't ever tell what one, maybe if I went through the /var/log/zypper.log I could figure it out, but it gives a kdesu error. So w/ all this, I've just started to primarily update through Yast.
I have had repeated problems with the file sys as well - had it crash the ext3 file sys on a brand new HDD and had to rebuild the from the journal... It's been working o'k since but a whole host of other issue has been leaking out at a fairly consistant rate. I recently unsub'ed from all the SuSE mailing list and DL'ed a ISO of Kumbuntu to replace my SuSE install but got nostalgic, likely becuase I've been using SuSE since kernel 2.4/7.x days and used to beta test it when it's was still a German only Linux Distro. I also realize the openSuSE is supposed to be essentially a working beta release - but the level of problems with the gnome/gtk vs the KDE3.x integration (big KDE fan) and the utter (IMHO) KDE4/plasma debacle has pushed me in the direction of going elsewhere to see if I can't find a bit more stability (of which Linux made it's bones as an OS). That mini rant aside - I am very frustrated with the lack of usability - seems things are moving backwards IMHO. Any help would be greatly appreciated - TIA Curtis. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org