** Reply to message from "Rajko M."
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.
But the "DONE" URLs above still do not appear in the window of Software Updates.
It will be still openSUSE 10.2 but updated with all patches.
Aha! Then I should run <zypper ref> again and hope that it will do that. On the other hand, it just sat there inertly before, and I don't see a reason why it should be different next time.
It is the same as anywhere. For instance Windows XP SP2 is patched, but still XP not Vista.
???? I know nothing whatever about Windows. I have been running OSes since CP/M, and have seen a lot of sky since, but I have never run Windows. I am a virgin.
To install openSUSE 10.3 the best way is to use: http://software.opensuse.org/
Are you telling me to update the whole system to 10.3? Do I need this? From what I have seen (not only now, but when I first installed 10.2 a few months ago), these repositories are exceedingly slow. Making a DVD proved to be unfeasible because of the slowness, even with various mirrors, so I fell back on making a set of CDs. I do NOT want to start an operation that will take days to complete, if indeed it doesn't drop out in the middle and leave me with an unusable system.
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
Yes, I know. I did that aautomatically without thinking. Probably if I had used the icon I would not have had the crash. Maybe that's one of the fixed bugs.
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.
So this is "System Update" in YaST?
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.
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