Thanks for your advice Ken, I will be very cautious. Regards, Colin On Saturday 12 March 2005 23:27, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 00:03, Colin Carter wrote:
I had a look at the SuSE updates at
http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ (9.1 x86_64)
I found three options:
RPM Patch-RPM Source-RPM
As a newbie the last option is out for me. I am nervous about option 2 because: what if I have missed an intermediate update?
So, if I go for the first option do I have to uninstall the current package first, or (like that other OS) can I install over top?
For the newbie I do not recommend using apt4rpm. You could end up breaking your system and not know how to get it back. If you do use it, knowing the risks, just use the RPM part. The Patch-RPM is just that, a patch for an installed RPM not the whole thing. I have never had any luck with the patch's in apt anyway as they always reported an error.
You would be better off staying with YaST (install and remove/online update) for all of your package needs until you become more familiar with SuSE linux. You are less likely to break anything that way.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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