Hi, all! This morning my main PC - the household router/gateway/firewall - lost its motherboard. Since i work from home, this was especially tragic. i rushed out and got a cheap PC to replace it - paid only 370 Euros for a box with an AMD Sempron 2800, 1GB of RAM, 80GB HDD, DVD writer, Realtek NIC, and an on-board ATI Radeon. When i got it home, i immediately put my old hard drives in it and found that i couldn't boot from my old installation. Not a big deal - i simply reinstalled Suse 10.1. Getting the Radeon to work right was a PITA, but other than that, no problems. Now... i would LIKE to do some software updates on this box, but i'm not about to start with the headaches i had before with 10.1's updater tools, and therefor i have a simple stock 10.1 installation. i know this has been asked, answered, discussed and cussed many times on this list, and that "the answer" to my question is somewhere in the archives, buried amongst a dozen or more hyperlinks, but... What i would like to ask is: what is THE best, most up-to-date, most accurate HOWTO/doc for replacing the 10.1 update tools with "something else." My main criteria is that i should be able to use Suse repositories for updates (including 3rd-party repos like packman). All i'm looking for is "the single best" link. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. :) -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts
On Thursday 05 October 2006 11:18, stephan beal wrote:
What i would like to ask is: what is THE best, most up-to-date, most accurate HOWTO/doc for replacing the 10.1 update tools with "something else." My main criteria is that i should be able to use Suse repositories for updates (including 3rd-party repos like packman).
Complete? Up to date?, Accurate? Nah! Nope, no way. But, imho, if you go to yast and get all the yast /zmd / zypp/ rug/ updates direct from the opensuse site, the rest will take care of itself. Its mostly fixed right now, as long as you manually select only those updates for the first go. There is a suse page on this on their site, I'm sure you can find it in the list archives or with Kong as quick as I could. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Thursday 05 October 2006 21:25, John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 05 October 2006 11:18, stephan beal wrote:
What i would like to ask is: what is THE best, most up-to-date, most accurate HOWTO/doc for replacing the 10.1 update tools with "something else." My main criteria is that i should be able to use Suse repositories for updates (including 3rd-party repos like packman).
Complete? Up to date?, Accurate?
Nah! Nope, no way.
i was afraid of that ;).
But, imho, if you go to yast and get all the yast /zmd / zypp/ rug/ updates direct from the opensuse site, the rest will take care of itself. Its mostly fixed right now, as long as you manually select only those updates for the first go.
Great - i'll try that. Thanks :) -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts
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