On 01/07/14 20:39, Richard Brown wrote:
On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 20:06 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
Last night I downlaoded Factory Snapshot 201406626, burnt it to a DVD and a short time ago tried to follow, word for word, what is stated in-
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Factory_installation You downloaded a factory snapshot..therefore the only part of that URL you need to follow is the 'Front Scratch' section..it's one line
quote: "Download an image, burn it on a DVD or write it to a USB stick and launch the installation from there after a reboot."
All the other stuff you followed, is in the 'UPGRADE' section of the wiki page, as you can see by the fact it's under the Upgrade sub header..
So, it looks to me that you installed Factory, and then tried to upgrade Factory to Factory
Which is so wrong, I'm not sure if the misbehaviour you report with "zypper ar .." is actually a legitimate problem with zypper in Factory, or just a result of totally unexpected side effects of attempting to upgrade something to itself ;-)
Maybe you can just reinstall from the media?
Thank you for you reply. As I stated, I followed the blurb word for word, namely: quote Introduction Just like other distributions openSUSE Factory can be installed either by downloading and launching an installation image to start from scratch or by upgrading from a stable release. From Scratch Download an image, burn it on a DVD or write it to a USB stick and launch the installation from there after a reboot. Upgrade There are two tasks needed in order to upgrade from any release to factory: Changing repositories to point to Factory Running zypper dup to upgrade all packages Repositories Start by removing the existing repos: mkdir /etc/zypp/repos.d/old mv /etc/zypp/repos.d/*.repo /etc/zypp/repos.d/old Then add the new repos zypper ar -f -c http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss repo-oss zypper ar -f -c http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/non-oss repo-non-oss zypper ar -f -c http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/debug repo-debug unquote Where in my OP did I say I tried to upgrade factory to factory? How could I possibly do such an upgrade if the bloody repos have not been created?! - as I stated, the list of repos is a BLANK, no, zilch, zero, nil repos shown. And now that I think about it after having tried to start YaST from the Desktop Settings in "Gecko", YaST goes "poof" when one left-clicks on it to start it. BC Specifically this bit quote: Then add the new repos zypper ar -f -c http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss repo-oss zypper ar -f -c http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/non-oss repo-non-oss zypper ar -f -c http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/debug repo-debug Oh, yea, pigs will fly, senor! :-( No such repos were added - but invoking each of the above commands produced the "help" screen for zypper. Then I decided to use YaST to install the above repos - and guess what? The piggies did not even begin to show signs of growing wings! :-( The YaST repository screen was empty and remained empty. So, is the blurb in http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Factory_installation rubbish or is there something missing in the Factory Snapshot I downloaded last night? Does anyone have an answer re this, please? BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.13.2 & kernel 3.15.2-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU
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