On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, John wrote:
I made the mistake of upgrading to openSUSE 10.2 and now I'm regretting it big time. Mplayer was uninstalled by the upgrade, and none of my multimedia apps work cause of file format patents, from what I can tell by the big warning about patents on a Novell web page. I never saw or heard a peep out of Novell about patents before this Microsoft "deal". I think Novell got shafted by Microsoft. Time will tell, especially if MS ends up acquiring Red Hat (heaven forbid the financial experts are wrong).
Why in the heck did openSUSE 10.2 have to remove a perfectly functioning Mplayer and leave me with a broken Kaffeine (which worked great before) and broken Noatun and broken XMMS, etc. I can't play any video formats now or burn any CDs. This is really pitiful.
Because you did not add the repo. It is your mistake. I did upgrades to 3 10.0 and 8 10.1 systems. All I had to do was have all the additional repos and everything was upgraded. I had downloaded everything from the ftp. So my install had the following. 198.60.105.2/local/suse/suse/i386/10.2/repo/oss 198.60.105.2/local/suse/suse/i386/10.2/repo/non-oss 198.60.105.2/local/suse/suse/i386/10.2/repo/src-oss 198.60.105.2/local/suse/suse/i386/10.2/repo/src-non-oss 198.60.105.2/local/suse/suse/i386/10.2/repo/packman 198.60.105.2/local/suse/suse/i386/10.2/repo/guru 198.60.105.2/local/suse/suse/i386/upgrade/10.2 You have to all all repo's you used like guru or packmam. The packman above was a ftp from packman.unixheads.com/pub/suse/10.2 You have to add all the repo's to get a complete upraded. You would need a similar to install fresh you 10.0 or 10.1. If you do not have all your installation sources then they may be deleted.
I'm really disgusted with what this upgrade has done. And why so many file updating programs? There's Yast, Yum, Smart, openSUSE Update, Synaptic, and a few more I can't remember at the moment. How in the world is a Windows user ever gonna convert and deal with so many choices? The strangest thing of all is how the documentation compares Smart to Yast and Yum and shows how superior it is to both. Then why include Yast and Yum anymore? Just provide Smart package manager and be done with it. Package management in Linux leaves a lot to be desired, compared to Windows Add/Remove Program and Setup programs.
Your own fault because you did not have all repo's needed.
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Boyd Gerber