suse updater issues?

**kartveli** · 21-Jun-2008, 01:21

hi,
when updater checks for updates and there are some (today for example) i popup info balloon telling me if i want to install. I choose yes, but it doesn't install anything, instead popup window shows up again telling me that new updates are available. And if i choose to install again (after filling in passwd) it gives me that popup again....and that's all.
anyone having same issue? is it a bug and should be reported?

thnx

**snakeeyes** · 21-Jun-2008, 01:47

Originally Posted by kartveli

hi,
when updater checks for updates and there are some (today for example) i popup info balloon telling me if i want to install. I choose yes, but it doesn't install anything, instead popup window shows up again telling me that new updates are available. And if i choose to install again (after filling in passwd) it gives me that popup again....and that's all.
anyone having same issue? is it a bug and should be reported?

thnx

uncheck the box that says remember my password or something like that and try again

**hcvv** · 21-Jun-2008, 02:06

I think the box snakeeyes mentions is not there since you are using the applet.

Now the applet is broken.

Start YaST > Online Update to install the security updates that were signaled by the applet.

And yes, it is a bug see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=388632, and the responsible person does not seem to take it serious, so we have to live with for some time I am afraid.

**kartveli** · 21-Jun-2008, 07:00

i update my system by zypper -dup.

is doing updates from yast better? (and is yes why?)
thnx

**hcvv** · 21-Jun-2008, 08:03

I think this is mostly a personal question. I started using YaST when I started using SUSE. In the meantime I know that a thing named zipper exists, but I still do not use it, but the GUI frontend in YaST.

You will see others doing everything with zipper.

**echoes-** · 21-Jun-2008, 09:52

yeah, i just use "Install Software" now since the annoying issue with the updater applet reared it's ugly head.

**stefan1975** · 21-Jun-2008, 10:27

i'd say forget yast2 at all and the tray applet even more so. zypper is all you need and quite on par with yum/apt/pacman. I do not like yast at all and what always strikes me as strange that when I update opensuse I have three options (yast,zypper,tray applet) and none of them display the same set of updates available.

# zypper dup

stefan

**Cryovac** · 21-Jun-2008, 11:48

Hard to infer the exact cause of different update sets without being at your system, but the -dup option does use a totally separate update algorithm from either YaST or the tray applet.

**hcvv** · 21-Jun-2008, 12:32

I think we are talking about different things now. The original question imho was about the applet. The applet warns about security updates, things that are in the update repository. YaST > Online Update does the same. There is no doubt you can do the same using zipper, but I can not tell you how.

The other thing is that in several repos (like KDE, nvidia, etcd) there may be newer versions of software. I download them using YaST > Software Management and then selecting all software or from a specific repo and then right click in the list choosing All in this List > Update when a newer version is available. I suppose this is (about?) the same as zipper dup or so (again I never used zipper from the CLI so details mea be wrong).

I think we should not embarrass kartveli by mixing these two types of update. I strongly advise to do the security ones. The other ones are up to you (and at your own risc).

**tribunal** · 23-Jun-2008, 11:10

More words about update applet:
I can't use it at all.
After selecting packages to update it stops working with error in kdesu

System: 11.0, KDE: 4.1beta

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