Re: [opensuse] SuSE Updater

On Saturday 16 August 2008 12:41:33 Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 08:28 +0100, Philip Burness wrote:
OpenSuse updater in my panel is showing 170 optional upgrades, when I
select ?all and then hit install it does nothing.
?When I go into Yast - online update I can not see the upgrade packages.
?
?I'm running SuSe 11.0
?
?How can I upgrade to the new versions?
?
?Thanks
?Phil

Right, online update will search for patches. The reason why it's not
installing is probably a dependency issue somewhere. Apparently if
updater is asked a question, it gets confused.

Go into Yast --> Software Management and search for them, you don't have
to search for the whole word, I'm sure alot of them are libs and kde
packages, but if a dependency option box pops up, that's the problem.

Can't. Tried that and I get the same message - can't access package database
due to it's claims that another program is accessing it - checking top
disputes this. I tried to DL the rpm/rpm-delta for the update repo and issue
and "rpm -Uhv *.rpm --replacefiles --replacespkgs" and it spits out cpio
errors with the packages...

Also I noticed there's one package, and I can't ever tell what one,
maybe if I went through the /var/log/zypper.log I could figure it out,
but it gives a kdesu error. So w/ all this, I've just started to
primarily update through Yast.

I have had repeated problems with the file sys as well - had it crash the ext3
file sys on a brand new HDD and had to rebuild the from the journal... It's
been working o'k since but a whole host of other issue has been leaking out
at a fairly consistant rate.

I recently unsub'ed from all the SuSE mailing list and DL'ed a ISO of Kumbuntu
to replace my SuSE install but got nostalgic, likely becuase I've been using
SuSE since kernel 2.4/7.x days and used to beta test it when it's was still a
German only Linux Distro. I also realize the openSuSE is supposed to be
essentially a working beta release - but the level of problems with the
gnome/gtk vs the KDE3.x integration (big KDE fan) and the utter (IMHO)
KDE4/plasma debacle has pushed me in the direction of going elsewhere to see
if I can't find a bit more stability (of which Linux made it's bones as an
OS).

That mini rant aside - I am very frustrated with the lack of usability - seems
things are moving backwards IMHO.

Any help would be greatly appreciated - TIA
Curtis.
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