Auto update failure openSUSE10.3

[OldAl]

Hi, for various reasons, my "work-horse" distro is still openSUSE10.3. Auto update fails with the message:

[QUOTE]
4 Problems: Problem: No valid solution found with just resolvables of best architecture. Problem: kdelibs4-core cannot be installed due to missing dependencies Problem: Can't satisfy requirement libphononexperimental.so.4()(64bit) for kdelibs4-3.93.0.svn712047-6.2.x86_64[openSUSE-10.3-Updates] Problem: Can't satisfy requirement libphonon.so.4()(64bit) for libkde4-4.1.3-69.6.x86_64[Education] Problem: No valid solution found with just resolvables of best architecture. With this run only resolvables with the best architecture have been regarded. Regarding all possible resolvables takes time, but can come to a valid result. Solution 1: Make a solver run with ALL possibilities. Regarding all resolvables with a compatible architecture.
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How can I make the "solver run with ALL possibilities"?

I confess that Yast's occasional failure to resolve the dependencies were and still remain a dark mystery to me. When Yast comes up with such message my "solution" has been to choose not to proceed with the installation...

It would be great to resolve this problem. Any and all information will be greatly appreciated.

OldAl.

[caf4926]

Open a terminal and do:

zypper lr --details

Post result

[OldAl]

Thanks for your reply, caf4926. I followed your suggestion. My box is named amd64. Here is a conversation, using the suggested command.

ak@amd64:~> zypper lr --details
Unknown option --details
ak@amd64:~>
ak@amd64:~> sudo zypper lr --details
root's password:
Unknown option --details
ak@amd64:~>

Not a big advance... Perhaps there is another zypper command? Can you suggest a good information source of explanation of zypper, perhaps better than the "man" pages? I guess that lr is "load repository", does that sound a reasonable supposition?

I need to catch up with the zypper - openSUSE is moving along at a lively pace. Thanks for your help!

OldAl.

[deano_ferrari]

The problem is zypper has undergone significant development since suse 10.3 version. (Most of us are now using openSUSE 11.X). He wanted you to provide list of configured repos. Instead, try

zypper sl

This suse 10.2 zypper reference may be useful.

[caf4926]

zypper lr

should do
Zypper/Usage/10.3 - openSUSE

[OldAl]

Originally Posted by caf4926

zypper lr

should do
Zypper/Usage/10.3 - openSUSE

Thanks for the information. There is a lot of it in the reference... I better study it first, before bothering you again. As you must have realised,

zypper lr

listed the installed repositories.

zypper update

produced, not surprisingly, the same error as the attempted update from KDE GUI.

Missing dependencies are a pain and well beyond my knowledge of Linux.

Thank you all for responding - much appreciated.

[deano_ferrari]

Thanks for the information. There is a lot of it in the reference... I better study it first, before bothering you again. As you must have realised,

zypper lr

listed the installed repositories.

Yes, but caf wanted you to post the repo list so they could be checked. Dependency issues could arise if required repos are not present and enabled for example.

[OldAl]

Originally Posted by deano_ferrari

Yes, but caf wanted you to post the repo list so they could be checked. Dependency issues could arise if required repos are not present and enabled for example.

Here is the dialog with the list of repositories (they have been updated):

amd64:/home/ak # zypper lr
#  | Enabled | Refresh | Type   | Alias
                        | Name
---+---------+---------+--------+-------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------+----------------------------------------------------
1  | Yes     | No      | rpm-md | http://www2.ati.com/suse/10.3
                        | ATI Repository
2  | Yes     | No      | rpm-md | http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/10.3/
                        | Packman Repository
3  | Yes     | Yes     | rpm-md | openSUSE-10.3-Updates
                        | openSUSE-10.3-Updates
4  | Yes     | No      | NONE   | Education
                        | Education
5  | Yes     | No      | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:10.3/stan
dard/                   | Main Repository (OSS)
6  | Yes     | Yes     | rpm-md | X11:Drivers:Video
                        | X11:Drivers:Video
7  | Yes     | No      | NONE   | NVIDIA Repository                                                                                                | NVIDIA Repository
8  | Yes     | No      | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:/Vi                             rtualBox/openSUSE_10.3/ | openSUSE BuildService - Virtualization (VirtualBox)
9  | Yes     | Yes     | yast2  | openSUSE:10.3                                                                                                    | openSUSE:10.3
10 | Yes     | Yes     | rpm-md | KDE:KDE3                                                                                                         | KDE:KDE3
11 | Yes     | No      | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:/Qe                             mu/openSUSE_10.3/       | openSUSE BuildService - Virtualization (QEMU)
12 | Yes     | Yes     | rpm-md | home:rbos                                                                                                        | home:rbos
13 | Yes     | No      | rpm-md | http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.3                                                                         | NVIDIA Repository
14 | Yes     | No      | yast2  | openSUSE10.3_repository_on_this_hdd.                                                                             | openSUSE10.3 repository on this hdd.
15 | Yes     | No      | rpm-md | openSUSE:10.3:Update                                                                                             | openSUSE:10.3:Update
16 | Yes     | No      | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XGL/openSUSE_                             10.3/                   | openSUSE BuildService - X11:XGL
17 | Yes     | No      | rpm-md | Main Update Repository                                                                                           | Main Update Repository
18 | Yes     | No      | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/non-oss/                                                     | Main Repository (NON-OSS)
19 | Yes     | No      | NONE   | openSUSE:10.3:NonFree                                                                                            | openSUSE:10.3:NonFree
amd64:/home/ak #

It would be very useful to find out what is going on, so if the list tells you what the problem may be, I would very much appreciate hearing it. Thank you for your response and explanation of what I was requested (by caf) to do.

[caf4926]

You seem to have some duplicates and repos disabled that I would enable.
Are you using ATI or Nvidia?

Do you know what you are using from education repo?
You should enable Packman.

Ideally, you should just have:
Updates
Oss
Non-Oss
Packman
either ATI or Nvidia
And KDE3 if you are using kde3

[OldAl]

Originally Posted by caf4926

You seem to have some duplicates and repos disabled that I would enable.
Are you using ATI or Nvidia?

Do you know what you are using from education repo?
You should enable Packman.

Ideally, you should just have:
Updates
Oss
Non-Oss
Packman
either ATI or Nvidia
And KDE3 if you are using kde3

I will disable all the other repositories and leave the above and see what happens with the update. I would like to get it going. Will not do it tonight, however, it is a bit late down under and I had a big day. We celebrated our 61-st (!) wedding anniversary yesterday, so I have to respond to my boss calling me to go to bed - it is 2200 hrs here...

Thank you very much for your patient help! I will post the results, of course.

Oh, my box has amd64 dual core processor, mobo has Nvidia chipsets (argh...) and there is an El Cheapo ATI graphics card, an Asus radeon EAH3450, so I will add an ATI repo, hopefully.