I am experiencing the same problem at present. I solved it the same
way for the patches that show up on the opensuse updater - I had to go
through the yast online update, it showed an unresolved dependency,
which I cleared. I think it's a bug when the updater fails silently
without telling you of the problem!
Unfortunately, this workaround worked for me only for the "patches"
section. When I tried to install things from the "updates" tab, it
still fails silently, i don't know why, but I can't find a
corresponding option in YaST. Is there something else I can do to sort
this?
Myrosia
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Rodney Baker
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:23:05 John R. Sowden wrote:
suse 11.0 start here updater shows I have 33 security updates to download. I click install. I get a req for the root pswd, I enter it. About 15 seconds later, the icon on the tray shows that I have 33 security updates go to 'start here'
now what?
John, I ran into this also. I worked around it by installing the updates manually (through Yast, Software Management) and discovered that there were unresolved dependency issues that the updater was unable to deal with.
It seems that either the sequence of releases is out of order, resulting in some updated packages being released into the repositories before the packages they depend on, or else some of the dependency information in the packages is seriously broken.
<rant> Upgrading kde 4.0.x to 4.1.x was a case in point - several times apps had to be uninstalled because there were "no installable providers" of a dependency. The stupid thing was that after they were uninstalled and the upgrade was done, they could all be reinstalled again because the dependencies were apparently satisfied after all...
I really can understand some people getting totally frustrated and switching distros about now, or ditching linux altogether - especially if they're relatively new to the scene and don't know how to go about resolving some of the stupid "dependency hell" that modern package managers are supposed to have alleviated or done away with altogether... </rant>
Cheers,
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