Re: [opensuse] Graduated from "Absent trash icon" to disaster

On Thursday 16 December 2010 00:05:13 phanisvara das wrote:

On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 03:23:07 +0530, Stan Goodman

I have to apologize for disappearing during the week that has passed since your note. It was unavoidable, for medical reasons, so that I did not have the time to concentrate on tis problem. I am back now, and hope we can continue.

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Believe it or not, I find that sequence confusing, and I want not to introduce more confusion to what already exists. Would you mind please to lay that out in detailed form?

then we'll have to start with what you have now. i didn't see you posting the output of "zypper lr -d" earlier in this thread. (forgive me if i'm wrong and you did...). that would clear any misunderstanding in this regard.

and i'd like to know what you did after enabling the KDE repo, which zypper command(s) that was.

That is unclear. I think I've described everything that I did. If you want me to repeat, I will do so, but I don't think there is anything else to add in that respect.

from what you describe it seems obvious that you got different KDE versions, at least in part, on your system, and that doesn't work. this can usually be rectified by "zypper dup" with and from the correct repositories.

-- phani

Your suggestion in your note of 16 December was as copied below, with my further questions: *****

IMO, what you should do now is do "zypper dup" with only the standard repos enabled (oss, non-oss), then add the packman (and any other repos you need) and upgrade their packages. then add the real KDE 4.5.4 repo to yast:

Would you please make the "zypper dup" instruction more explicit by including its argument? The remainder of your paragraph above isn't clear to me, because I don't understand what more is to be done after the "zypper dup" (nor do I know what to expect as the result of the "zypper dup"). Is this about d/l KDE packages for KDE4.5? Does that have to done individually for each KDE package? But if it is about KDE packages, why the reference to packman?

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/45/openSUSE_11.3 /

[assuming you're on openSUSE 11.3; too lazy to look up the whole thread now.]

I am ion 11.3.

then run "zypper dup" or switch all packages to the KDE 4.5 repo via yast. (i find the latter safer, since it's easier to see and edit potential problems than with zypper output.)

I am flummoxed by this paragraph, because the earlier paragraphs above have had mr run "zypper dup......", then do the download, and here again we are talking about "zypper dup" and switching packages. ***** There is yet another part of this problem that hasn't been mentioned yet. As I described in my original query, the system at present is altogether unusable, so I would not be able to perform any of the suggested actions using the GUI. I assume (hope) that run level 3 would enable me to work; I know how to move from run level 5 to 3 in a normally operating system, but I do not know, and haven't been able to find, how to boot directly to text based interface when the system is still configured for level 5. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org