Hello SuSE people, Just installed 9.2 on my brand new AMD 64 system. Installed like a dream come true. (no dual layer DVD problems) Then restored all of my old 8.2 /home and /data stuff without any serious (but sometimes problematic issues) with Kdar. This system FLIES !!! Open Office and The Gimp open in less than 10 seconds. Konqueror, Kmail, & Firefox open almost immediately. I am a very happy 9.2 user! Now, for the question - Figured I would do the YOU update. (Never did one before since SuSE 6.or 7. or whenever it was available) Always used Apt. (and will again for package updates) (The 9.1 64 bit of Apt won't install - yet ) Connected to the server and there was a huge list of update patches. (Many megabytes) Some are red, some are blue, and some are black. All have checkmarks next to them to be updated? Question is, what am I looking at? Do they all need to be updated ? (excluding, of course packages that I don't need or want) Looking for a little guidance here. Bob S.
On Monday 22 November 2004 05:50, B. Stia wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
Just installed 9.2 on my brand new AMD 64 system. Installed like a dream come true. (no dual layer DVD problems) Then restored all of my old 8.2 /home and /data stuff without any serious (but sometimes problematic issues) with Kdar.
This system FLIES !!! Open Office and The Gimp open in less than 10 seconds. Konqueror, Kmail, & Firefox open almost immediately. I am a very happy 9.2 user!
Now, for the question - Figured I would do the YOU update. (Never did one before since SuSE 6.or 7. or whenever it was available) Always used Apt. (and will again for package updates) (The 9.1 64 bit of Apt won't install - yet )
Connected to the server and there was a huge list of update patches. (Many megabytes) Some are red, some are blue, and some are black. All have checkmarks next to them to be updated?
Question is, what am I looking at? Do they all need to be updated ? (excluding, of course packages that I don't need or want)
you have "autoselect packages" on. These are packages that SUSE updated, and are installed on you system. I let him, and have had no problems. I don't see a reason you would not want the packages. I think the color scheme, is: red security update blue other suggested updates black optional updates Jerry
Looking for a little guidance here.
Bob S.
B. Stia wrote:
Now, for the question - Figured I would do the YOU update. (Never did one before since SuSE 6.or 7. or whenever it was available) Always used Apt. (and will again for package updates) (The 9.1 64 bit of Apt won't install - yet )
BTW, just use the 9.2 64 bit apt and synaptic. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
B. Stia wrote:
Connected to the server and there was a huge list of update patches. (Many megabytes) Some are red, some are blue, and some are black. All have checkmarks next to them to be updated?
Question is, what am I looking at? Do they all need to be updated ? (excluding, of course packages that I don't need or want)
Looking for a little guidance here.
You'd certainly want any security patches. As for the others, you'd just have to read what they do, and be guided accordingly.
Bob S.
At least you didn't sign, using just your initials. ;-)
The Sunday 2004-11-21 at 23:50 -0500, B. Stia wrote:
Connected to the server and there was a huge list of update patches. (Many megabytes) Some are red, some are blue, and some are black. All have checkmarks next to them to be updated?
The color code explanation is hidden somewhere in that screen, perhaps help, or right click; I am not connected now, so I can not check. The text has a colour code, and the tick boxes another. They are different. If you click on it, and see the download size go down, then it was selected to update. Trick: use the "see already installed and new patches" option, or you will miss a few. Meaning that packages that were already updated, but that have a new update available, will not show, but will update nevertheless. Since for me bandwidth is an issue (modem) I take out some big updates which are not too important for me, or to do at some other time. Pity YOU can not write a list of files to a file, so that I can use wget at my leisure to download manually over some days.
Question is, what am I looking at? Do they all need to be updated ? (excluding, of course packages that I don't need or want)
If you have the bandwidth or time, accept the default. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Pity YOU can not write a list of files to a file, so that I can use wget at my leisure to download manually over some days.
If you restore the SuSE Watcher (assuming you use it), and click on the Show last log, it will show pretty much what you want. HTH. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
The Sunday 2004-11-21 at 23:50 -0500, B. Stia wrote:
Connected to the server and there was a huge list of update patches. (Many megabytes) Some are red, some are blue, and some are black. All have checkmarks next to them to be updated?
Red ones are critical security updates. Blue ones are non critical updates (like bugfixes) if I'm not mistaken. Black ones are optional extras, like the script to download the nVidia driver, ect. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
participants (6)
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B. Stia
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Carlos E. R.
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Hans du Plooy
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James Knott
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Jerry Westrick
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Joe Morris (NTM)