I've been in the habit of running "zypper dup" because I started it when I upgraded to kde4.3. I had the idea (mistaken?) that zypper dup was somehow more thorough than zypper up, but list comments seem to indicate that it's somewhat unsafe for less deeply knowledgable people like me. I just decided to try a "zypper up", and it's happily updating some of my software, but I'm wondering if it's altogether a good idea to start using "up" after several months of using "dup". The only thing I'm fairly sure of is that "up" won't change vendors, while "dup" will. Is it indeed safe to leave the present set of vendorsalone and just use "up" from now on? I haven't had any serious problem using "dup", but it frequently complains that it can't find a source for some library or other, and I have to blindly tell it to downgrade without knowing for sure what the effects will be. Will "zypper up" eliminate or reduce these complaints? am I likely to run into trouble changing to "zypper up"? --oops! Just hit a problem I don't remember having seen before: -------------------------------------------------------------- Installing: java-1_6_0-openjdk-1.6.0.0_b17-2.1.1 [error] Installation of java-1_6_0-openjdk-1.6.0.0_b17-2.1.1 failed: (with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0/demo/applets: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): ---------------------------------------------------------------- Since I have to leave for work now, I'll simply abort. Hope someone gives me some guidance for how to proceed from here when I get back tonight. John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org