On Wednesday 17 October 2007 01:10:30 pm Stan Goodman wrote:
** Reply to message from "Rajko M."
on Wed, 17 Oct ... Run 'zypper ref' and see is there any changes to "Pending".
***** # zypper ref Refreshing 20070714-101018 URI: cd:///?devices=/dev/hda DONE
Refreshing 20070714-155626 URI: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/ DONE
Refreshing update102 URI: http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.suse.com/suse/update/10.2/ DONE
Refreshing guru102
***** ... From the above, I see understand that It has defined the upgrade necessary from my original CD set to the current release.
It will be still openSUSE 10.2 but updated with all patches. It is the same as anywhere. For instance Windows XP SP2 is patched, but still XP not Vista. To install openSUSE 10.3 the best way is to use: http://software.opensuse.org/
Please tell me if that is correct. It seems then to say that it knows about the update URL, and is now "Refreshing guru102. Actually, I think it is doing nothing,
It could be. I can't recall all problems with initial installation of openSUSE 10.2, and I would strongly recommend to update your system first. There is a lot of patches pending after initial installation and few are about package management system (zypper, libzypp, YaST) that solve some bugs there.
but the system crashed when I entered "konqueror" in thesearch field of the lizard menu (per your suggesstion below), in the course of which a bug announcement came up, with an invitation to send in a bug report.
Konqueror is blue globe icon on left side of taskbar, or Main Menu > Applications > Internet > Web Browser > Konqueror
Please tell me what it was trying to do whtn it said "Refreshing guru102", so that I know whether to repeat <zypper ref> again, or do something else.
I would skip 'guru102' and any other repository except official, before you update system, otherwise you can end up with messed system. That is one of problems that update solves. The guru also changed location recently and links may not be correct (I haven't checked this).
After the same exercise with the update URL, there is a line at the bottom of the window, saying: "Adding ftp://mirrors.netbg.com/opensuse/update/10.2". It doesn't go away, and ... This is 10.2 update link: ftp://mirrors.netbg.com/suse/update/10.2
That is indeed the URL that I have been trying to use for update -- with the result I have reported.
You can compare them side by side: ftp://mirrors.netbg.com/suse/update/10.2 ftp://mirrors.netbg.com/opensuse/update/10.2 That is the change between opensuse 10.2 and 10.3, update directory went from 'suse' to 'opsnsuse', but from zypper listing above I can see that you are using another server, so that problem is solved. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org