Am Mittwoch, 8. September 2010, 11:22:30 schrieb Anne Wilson:
I'm a long-time KDE user, familiar with Fedora and new to OpenSUSE. I find I am getting far fewer updates than expected, with huge numbers of packages apparently protected against updates. I understand the principle, but would value some help in finding documentation about the various repositories and setting priorities, since I assume this is my problem. Amongst other things I would like to move to KDE 4.5, which I had in Fedora.
In short. openSUSE tries to prevent the user from switching to unsupported packages . This means that if one e.g. uses the packman repo only those packages from it which the user explicitly picked are considered for updates if one runs zypper up or uses YaST software management > menu packages > all packages > update if newer version is available. It is also possible to switch all packages from a repo by clicking the "link" at the top of YaST software management's package list of that repo. zypper can do this with zypper dup --from reponame. dup includes venodr changes (from official to some other repo) up does not consider vendor changes. kupdateapplet only checks for official updates. It might do otherwise if the zypper backend is used but I'm not sure about that. Regarding an update to KDE 4.5 there is a wiki page that has a step-by-step guide. Also you might be interested in subscribing to the opensuse-kde mailinglist or drop by on freenode at #opensuse-kde. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org