Re: [SLE] why is updating difficult? -- It's NOT

** Reply to message from Patrick Shanahan on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:45:33 -0400

* kanenas@hawaii.rr.com [09-06-06 20:00]:

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btw, after i ran smart update/upgrade, now the "update" button has turned orange!!!! should i reinstall zmd? are they coming to take me away?

disable zmd and stick with smart.

I am updating 10.1 with apt-get with just a few hitches, like ghostscript fonts conflict with print-pro 4.1. So, in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/apt.conf I put a hold on that package so that apt-get doesn't try to update it again. I use 2 commands: apt-get update, then apt-get -s upgrade After the second, if everything looks okay, I remove the "-s" and let it rip. I have never caused instability in my system and it stays up to date. To kill all the weird messages from the broken updaters it did a "rpm -e zmd rug zen-updater" so they are now out of the way. Ed Harrison, Linux User # 199533 SuSE10.0, Kernel 2.6.16.21-0.13 PolarBar Mailer 1.26