On 05/15/2010 01:59 PM, John Andersen wrote:
... Wary or not, there was virtually no other way to repair the system other than descending into rpm hell.
For many naive users this is a PERMANENT breakage. Their opensuse distro is forever blocked from correcting itself, and they are forever blocked from fixing it without some friendly guru to help out.
Well, I know about symlinking and libraries and such, and I was thinking about searching the library directories for a libzypp to try that with. But I'd never done it with my system software, and I decided to get some advice before either risking a corrupt system or going through the hassle of a reinstall.
The one thing that MUST not break. It broke simply by running the software updater.
Yes, that's true, and scary. But it did get fixed. In fact, taking advantage of Jon's wisdom, I deleted the link, ran "zypper up", and got ... Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... The following package updates will NOT be installed: ffmpeg gnokii gpsd gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-lang gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-lang gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good libavcodec52 libavdevice52 libavformat52 libavutil50 libfaad2 libmp3lame0 libpostproc51 libschroedinger-1_0-0 libswscale0 libvlc2 libvlccore2 taglib-sharp vlc-beta vlc-beta-gnome vlc-beta-noX vlc-beta-qt The following packages are going to be upgraded: gpa grass grass-docs libgdal1 libpython2_6-1_0 libvlc5 libvlccore5 mozilla-kde4-integration python python-base python-numpy python-tk python-xml qgis qgis-devel qgis-plugin-grass tomboy tomboy-lang 18 packages to upgrade. ... And things finished up fine. But now yast doesn't run. I'll have to restart my system to see if one of the updates disabled it... jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org