Brian W. Carver wrote:

Hi,

I decided to take the plunge and try upgrading to KDE 3.0.1 through the YOU patch. (I'm trying this on a default 8.0 install w/ office that I have not messed with too much.) It downloads several patches from the SuSE ftp site and once it finishes a pop-up box appears saying "No patch will be installed" and all I can do is press OK and YOU stops. If I try it again, the same thing happens except the downloading of the patches goes much faster, as if it realizes I've already downloaded the patches. Then the pop-up box shows up saying No patch will be installed. What gives? (The only thing I can think of is that the first time I was waiting on the patches to download I left the computer unattended a while and it could have timed out waiting on me to click Next. Why would this matter? The patches are there the "Show description" pop-up still shows all the old KDE stuff is installed.)

When you select a package to manually update you need to select it twice (by either using the Accept button or by double-clicking on the package). The first time you select it a G appears next to the name -- this will only Get the package but not install it. When you select it again an X appears next to the name - and this time the package(s) will be installed after it/they are downloaded. One other thing to watch out for: during the download of the package(s), YOU may come back and advise that it cannot obtain the package (from the site) and to try another site to get it. Don't panic. Without disconnecting from your ISP restart the whole process of manually updating the package(s). YOU will actually waste time and get the list of all the avilable packages again, but when you start the real update it "knows" which pacakages it has already downloaded and will pickup from where it left off. KDE 3.0.1 is made up of some 12 or 13 separate packages and, in my case, when YOU downloaded 10 of them it decided that it couldn't go on. I thought that over an hour of downloading was a total waste- but when I did what I describe above it completed the update of KDE 3.0 without another hitch.