Re: [opensuse] What the hell does zypper
PAUL HENRY CONNELL wrote:
Hi David, Thanks for the advice but what does
"Just right-click opensuseupdater in the sys tray"
mean.
I have opensuse10.3 and cannot find anything matching this? What is a "tray" - is it the list of options in a pop-up or pull-down menu? Which menu - I have searched all I could find.
Regards
Paul Connell
In the KDE menu it is "start menu->System->Desktop Applet->openSuSE Updater Applet" its icon looks like the green opensuse lizard head with wings on it in the \ position (best description I have). It runs the check for automatic system updates. The problem is that if you have a number of repositories added, it must check/refresh each one that can eat up 10 minutes easily with a lot of disk I/O and cpu. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 15 April 08, David C. Rankin wrote:
PAUL HENRY CONNELL wrote:
Hi David, Thanks for the advice but what does
"Just right-click opensuseupdater in the sys tray"
mean.
I have opensuse10.3 and cannot find anything matching this? What is a "tray" - is it the list of options in a pop-up or pull-down menu? Which menu - I have searched all I could find.
Regards
Paul Connell
In the KDE menu it is "start menu->System->Desktop Applet->openSuSE Updater Applet" its icon looks like the green opensuse lizard head with wings on it in the \ position (best description I have). It runs the check for automatic system updates. The problem is that if you have a number of repositories added, it must check/refresh each one that can eat up 10 minutes easily with a lot of disk I/O and cpu.
Not entirely true about time and repositories...if one opens YaST->Software Repositories, each repo can be set to 'not' refresh every time. Then, say, after a week, go back and set them to refresh to see if there's anything 'new' in each one. It takes a few more seconds, but no big deal. The only 'difficult' thing of it all is if one is on dial-up (derned satellite is far too expensive for those of us on fixed incomes). -- "Democracy cannot survive overpopulation... The more people there are the less one individual matters." Isaac Asimov -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-04-15 at 23:00 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
In the KDE menu it is "start menu->System->Desktop Applet->openSuSE Updater Applet" its icon looks like the green opensuse lizard head with wings on it in the \ position (best description I have). It runs the check for automatic system updates. The problem is that if you have a number of repositories added, it must check/refresh each one that can eat up 10 minutes easily with a lot of disk I/O and cpu.
Zypper is a lot faster in opensuse 11 (factory). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIBdAetTMYHG2NR9URAmIzAJ9k/+mpNV9Yydu0Fzkb99PXJFJ/tgCfY+MH dEB0Jbyu9VntodatjUUOgn8= =dGwd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2008-04-15 at 23:00 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
In the KDE menu it is "start menu->System->Desktop Applet->openSuSE Updater Applet" its icon looks like the green opensuse lizard head with wings on it in the \ position (best description I have). It runs the check for automatic system updates. The problem is that if you have a number of repositories added, it must check/refresh each one that can eat up 10 minutes easily with a lot of disk I/O and cpu.
Zypper is a lot faster in opensuse 11 (factory).
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
I'm starting to smile about that.......... -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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