Hi,
I’m using openSUSE 11.0 and have reached a point where the opensuse updater control panel applet ‘update package listing’ does not correspond with Yast or zypper (command line).
Any tips on how to get the applet to refresh/sync it’s package data?
Without wanting to confuse the issue, AFAIK the applet is only good for upgrading packages from opensuse OSS and non-OSS repos. I’ve had to abandon using the opensuseupdater-kde applet altogether because it kept trying to downgrade kde4.1.x packages.
If you’re like most, and have other community repos (eg packman) enabled with priorities, you’re better off sticking with zypper.
In 11.1 the updater applet switched to PackageKit instead of zypper for the backend. If you want the applet to tell you about updates from Packman etc., you need to install the package kupdateapplet-zypp through Yast.
After you install that, right click the updater in the system tray and choose quit. Restart the applet by issuing kupdateapplet from a konsole or alt-f2. Right click the applet and select configure applet. Change the backend to zypp plugin, and check the box that says “show available upgrades when plugin provides them”