suse 11.2 updater not working?

**lord_valarian** · 09-Apr-2010, 13:48

I'v not seen any security or any other updates, including firefox for many months(since January or earlier). Is there anything wrong?

**caf4926** · 09-Apr-2010, 14:01

Please post result of

Code:

zypper lr -d

Have you tried zypper?

su terminal

Code:

zypper up

**lord_valarian** · 09-Apr-2010, 14:34

Code:

zypper lr -d

Have you tried zypper?

Code:

su terminal
zypper up

Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

Nothing to do.

Refresh is off?

clamav is at 95.2, current is 0.96

**Raffles10** · 09-Apr-2010, 15:45

If you want updates you'll need to add the Update repo'.

Package repositories - openSUSE

**caf4926** · 09-Apr-2010, 20:56

su terminal

Code:

zypper mr -d 1

Code:

zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2/ updates

Code:

zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss/ non-oss

Code:

zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/ oss

Use your mouse to copy and paste the code in to the terminal, one at a time.

then do

Code:

zypper ref

then

Code:

zypper up

(a) accept licences

**lord_valarian** · 14-Apr-2010, 22:43

I forgot to save the terminal data. So, this is what I remember. All statements entered and successful. "314(?) packages to update. 8 new.". Terminal showed download and install for those packages. Firefox is now at v3.59 --- Looks like that did the job, thanks.

I'm still going to wait and see if I get another update for anything. I'll look for any updates on suse news(or where?) and see if they appear on updater applet.

**lord_valarian** · 17-Apr-2010, 13:41

The updater icon changed to software update available(not security). When I clicked on it, it requested the admin password. After, it didn't do anything. When I went to yast to check for online updates. It showed software updates available. So, I clicked to download and install.

**caf4926** · 17-Apr-2010, 13:50

So I take it, things are better for you now?

**lord_valarian** · 19-Apr-2010, 14:10

Originally Posted by caf4926

So I take it, things are better for you now?

The manual update worked. Software updater(icon) seems be not working right. Yast online update works. So, i'll have to use yast for updating software. Taskbar icon(software update) will notify me of updates, but will not retrieve them if I enter admin password.

**caf4926** · 19-Apr-2010, 14:20

Personally, one of the first things I do in a new install is tell the updater applet NOT to start at boot and then I reboot. From then on I set up everything in Yast Software Management. And I run most of my updating from there too, as I use development repos. But zypper up works fine on a basic system once you have it all set up.