On Tuesday 10 October 2006 19:57, Michael Letourneau wrote:
Michael Letourneau wrote:
On Oct 10, 06 08:35:32 -0400, Michael Letourneau wrote:
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In the Subject you have Xorg 7.1. On my 10.1 machine the latest delivered by SUSE server is xorg-x11-server-glx-6.9.0-50.17 which I think may be buggy. The latest is 7.1 I believe. Does anyone know if SUSE might release a newer X server for 10.1 or will we have to wait for 10.2 ? Maybe this is related to the above.
Suse/Novell do not upgrade packages on a released version of Suse (as I understand it). They backport any security issues but they do not upgrade the components. So in order to upgrade to 7.1 on 10.1 I had to use an alternate repository that has Xorg 7.1 built for 10.1. The first time the process was somewhat painful, the second time I did it, it went easier.
Essentially what I did was grab all the packages from the repository, download them locally. Drop down to runlevel 3, remove all the packages for Xorg 6.9, (which I suppose could be really risky as I did rpm --erase --nodeps <package> definitely not recommended for novices as you are telling the package system to remove the package and not care about any dependency issues). Then I did the same for sax2, and another set of packages I forget which. Then I went and added in the packages I downloaded with rpm -ivh <newpackage>, it would tell you if there was a conflict and if so you had to go erase another package... After it was done and I was up at runlevel 5, I went through and used SMART to try to clean up any dependency issues I had... Which I think it did properly...
Hope that helps, but again, unless you are comfortable with what you are doing I would not recommend it...
Michael
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