Tumbleweed

Introduction

Tumbleweed can be a challenge for new Linux users. The system is gradually and perpetually upgraded with new RPMs appearing almost daily in the Tumbleweed repositories. Zypper is the recommended tool for keeping your Tumbleweed distro up to date. You will receive messages from zypper regarding dependencies where you will make choices (very infrequently). If that could make you stressed, don't install Tumbleweed.

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If you have Tumbleweed based on openSUSE 11.4, it is underpinned by 11.4's software repositories.

Changing from Tumbleweed based on openSUSE 11.4 to Tumbleweed based on openSUSE 12.1 requires only that you delete some opennSUSE 11.4 repositories and ...

Alternative Title: Quick and Easy Insurance for Tumbleweed Users

Introduction: I back up Tumbleweed each time there's a kernel update because I can't afford to have my computer go down, not even for a ...

Introduction: Tumbleweed users can't use RPMs from the official openSUSE repositories for Nvidia kernel module drivers because the RPMs are matched to the static kernel in the underlying static distro. The kernels in Tumbleweed are constantly changing, so drivers for Nvidia have to be reinstalled every time the kernel changes.

BTW, you don't have to be a Tumbleweed user to use this method; it works in standard openSUSE too.

This article is for openSUSE 11.4 and higher, and for users who are a bit confused by the cryptic nature of the wiki edition. Advanced users will find it quicker to use the wiki edition provided they skirt the ...

This article is obsolete. It will only work from now until the date when openSUSE 12.1 is released. The new article, which works from now (9 Novenber 2011) onwards is located here: HowTo Upgrade openSUSE 12.x to Tumbleweed. Despite the title, it works for 11.4 just fine.

If you have a working version of Tumbleweed based on openSUSE 11.4, this article might interest you: HowTo Prepare 11.4-based Tumbleweed for openSUSE 12.1

Warning: Tumbleweed ...