[SLE] yast working with suse 10.1
HI Has anyone gotten yast to work properly with opensuse10.1? I have added sources to yast and I still can not use yast reliably. This has to be the worst suse I have ever seen. I downloaded the rpm for the latest firefox and it refuses to install. I have yet to see the security updates show up in yast. thanks Martin
On Friday 23 June 2006 11:32 am, martin glazer wrote:
HI Has anyone gotten yast to work properly with opensuse10.1? I have added sources to yast and I still can not use yast reliably. This has to be the worst suse I have ever seen. I downloaded the rpm for the latest firefox and it refuses to install. I have yet to see the security updates show up in yast. YaST works fine on my laptop. I got an update yesterday.
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Has anyone gotten yast to work properly with opensuse10.1?
I assume you're talking about the online-update part of YAST.
I have added sources to yast and I still can not use yast reliably. This has to be the worst suse I have ever seen. I downloaded the rpm for the latest firefox and it refuses to install. I have yet to see the security updates show up in yast.
Here's what works for me: Go into "installation-source". Turn off refresh and deactivate the update source. Get out of installation-source. Go back into "installation-source". Turn off refresh and activate the update source. Exit out of installation-source. Run online-update (you). Install your updates, which now show up. If the only only update is selected (or rug or zmd or something like that), you will have to run online-update again to get the rest of the updates. You may or may not have to do the installation-source trick again (that I described above). - BS -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Friday 23 June 2006 16:50, Bruce Smith wrote:
Has anyone gotten yast to work properly with opensuse10.1?
I assume you're talking about the online-update part of YAST.
I have added sources to yast and I still can not use yast reliably. This has to be the worst suse I have ever seen. I downloaded the rpm for the latest firefox and it refuses to install. I have yet to see the security updates show up in yast.
Here's what works for me:
Go into "installation-source". Turn off refresh and deactivate the update source. Get out of installation-source. Go back into "installation-source". Turn off refresh and activate the update source. Exit out of installation-source. Run online-update (you). Install your updates, which now show up. It's not as complex as that! want I do is at the installation-source choose to do refresh (using the button labeled edit) It seems that the refresh switch is not working proprely,because i have it on but the refresh is only done through the Edit button.
So want I do is at the installation-source perform a manually refresh of every repository but the original instalation source. Then leave the installation-source and everything seems to work fine (this worked even before the yast update things). regards,
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On Friday 23 June 2006 10:32, martin glazer wrote:
HI Has anyone gotten yast to work properly with opensuse10.1? I have added sources to yast and I still can not use yast reliably. This has to be the worst suse I have ever seen. I downloaded the rpm for the latest firefox and it refuses to install. I have yet to see the security updates show up in yast.
I also am having problems and more than problems. I've been using synaptic with apt for quite a wile and was totally happy with it. Once I got it configured, no problems and I could do a YOU also. using http://ftp.ale.org/pub/suse/update/10.1 as a repository with YOU I get a list of thing to update (all in red) and another list of things in blue . So far so good. Oddly enough everything comes through with a blue check (not the update) mark. I click accept and the screen vanishes and nothing happens. Restart YOU and the same programs are there same as before. I alter the blue checks (keep) to updates and click it. It says installation finished and then back to Yast. Restart YOU and the same programs are still there with the blue checkmark next to each. I uninstalled zen and rug and tried things, no change. I tried turnng refresh off on the source repository and then turning it back on. No change. I don't know if the security updates are installed but I rather doubt it. It's getting to the point that I am thinking of switching to debian just because they have an update tool that works. (apt) And works well I might add.
thanks Martin
-- Roy F. Cabaniss
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 08:53 -0500, Roy F. Cabaniss wrote:
On Friday 23 June 2006 10:32, martin glazer wrote:
HI Has anyone gotten yast to work properly with opensuse10.1? I have added sources to yast and I still can not use yast reliably. This has to be the worst suse I have ever seen. I downloaded the rpm for the latest firefox and it refuses to install. I have yet to see the security updates show up in yast.
I also am having problems and more than problems. I've been using synaptic with apt for quite a wile and was totally happy with it. Once I got it configured, no problems and I could do a YOU also.
using http://ftp.ale.org/pub/suse/update/10.1 as a repository with YOU I get a list of thing to update (all in red) and another list of things in blue . So far so good. Oddly enough everything comes through with a blue check (not the update) mark.
I click accept and the screen vanishes and nothing happens. Restart YOU and the same programs are there same as before.
I alter the blue checks (keep) to updates and click it. It says installation finished and then back to Yast. Restart YOU and the same programs are still there with the blue checkmark next to each.
The blue entries mean they are already installed so there is nothing to do. IIRC, the red entries mean you already have a newer version installed so there is nothing to do there as well. This is the normal behavior of YaST, there is no problem. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
"Roy F. Cabaniss" <rcaban@housedraco.org> writes:
using http://ftp.ale.org/pub/suse/update/10.1 as a repository with YOU I get a list of thing to update (all in red) and another list of things in blue . So far so good. Oddly enough everything comes through with a blue check (not the update) mark.
You do not interpret the colors and the symbols correctly. Please, look at "Help -> Symbols" of YOU. Shortly: The text color indicates the severity of the patch (security, recommended, optional). The blue mark indicates that the patch has already been installed. -- A.M. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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Roy F. Cabaniss