On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 11:42, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Yes it will say that because of the limitation of the way that YaST was programmed. It will install the older program that is on the CD/DVD install disk. So it will downgrade as opposed to upgrade my system. And it will also include any dependencies or can a newer library still be used by an
Ken Schneider wrote: older package without hassle ie recompiling?
My biggest fear is that, as I do not know how to compile and am really a mouse tickler, I do not want to install a later version of Mozilla or OOo, find it doesn't work and then be unable to point and click to un-install it so my system is left as though I had never installed the 'offending' app. Mozilla and OOo are the two most crucial at the moment as they are helping me look for and apply for employment, and I will not have that help destroyed.
I am not sure of the newer libs involved you will need to test that on your own. In the past 10 days I have upgraded the kernel vi YOU and found that 3D would not work so downgraded to previous version, upgraded to KDE 3.3.2 and found to many problems I was not willing to live with so I used YaST to install the orig's from the install CD. Worked without problems. YMMV. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge