Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1306 mails)

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On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 19:07, James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Or.... install Firefox 10 from the openSUSE Mozilla repo...
> >
> > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_12.1/ for 12.1.
>
> I added that link to my repositories, but Firefox 10 does not show up as
> being available in Software Management.  Is it necessary to manually update
> it from that site?

Ummmm.... OK, first thing to note... this is one of the standard
Community Repos that you can get through the usual Add Community
repositories steps. YaST > Software > Software repositories > Add >
Community Repositories, and select Mozilla from the list.... so adding
it isn't complicated or out of the usual process.

If you set this repo to have a higher priority (ie a prio less than
99) it should offer the newer version when you go to Software Manager
and look at what upgrades are available.

Alternatively, search for Firefox, click on it so that it's
highlighted, and click the Versions tab in the lower right area.

If you select the Mozilla repo in your list of available repos (in the
software manager) you will also get a blue link at the top of the
appication list which you can click to switch updates to explicitly
use this (Mozilla) repository for updates/installs.

This is all reasonably well documented, and pretty
logical/intuitive...  See for example:
http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Software_Management
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Add_package_repositories
http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/html/openSUSE/opensuse-startup/part.reference.software.html

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