I can’t seem to find the distro upgrade function from 11.1 to 11.2.
Is is included in the new release?
You need to change your repos in 11.1 to 11.2 vers
then do:
zypper ref
zypper in zypper libzypp
zypper dup
No guarantees though. You probably have too many repos in your 11.1 list.
I meant more like the distro upgrade as in Ubuntu
more at:
openSUSE 11.2 will support live updates - openSUSE Forums
My personal recommendation would be to re-install. It’ll clean everything up and you can easily change to ext4 too.
The upgrade from disk option is only on the DVD; bear in mind that it generally takes a lot longer to do an upgrade from the DVD than a fresh install, even counting the time taken to add extra programs and configuration after the fresh install.
well, the zypper way of upgrading from 11.1 worked just fine with me, excepting for this little error (which I havent addressed yet)
heu-full@heuosu:~> cat /etc/SuSE-release
openSUSE 11.2 (i586)
VERSION = 11.2
heu-full@heuosu:~> sudo zypper up
root’s password:
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
The following packages are going to be upgraded:
kbd libggz2
2 packages to upgrade.
Overall download size: 1.1 MiB. After the operation, 19.0 KiB will be freed.
Continue? [y/n/?] (y): y
Retrieving package kbd-1.14.1-20.2.i586 (2/2), 1.1 MiB (2.3 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: kbd-1.14.1-20.2.i586.rpm [done (60.0 KiB/s)]
Installing: kbd-1.14.1-20.2 [error]
Installation of kbd-1.14.1-20.2 failed:
(with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: warning: /etc/init.d/kbd saved as /etc/init.d/kbd.rpmsave
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/mk-cp1251.map.gz: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory
Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): i
heu-full@heuosu:~>
As for the OP question, the method described in the message #2 does the same as the (k)ubuntu updater does, excepting changing your repositories URLs to the new release ones. If you still want to upgrade instead of reinstalling what you have to do is run yast, go to “Software Repositories”, and edit your repositories changing every occurrence of 11.1 to 11.2 (only one of the repos on my list failed to support 11.2 and it was a library to play dvds), then Refresh either on Yast or by issuing “sudo zypper ref” then just proceed as indicated in the message #2 (install 11.2s zypper then zypper dup)
Yeh 11.1 doesnt really have a ubuntu like dist upgrade, but 11.2 will.
There are benefits and drawbacks to dist upgrading like Ubuntu does, if you use ubuntu off and on like I do you could see where its updating can be chaotic sometimes.
That’s what I started to think too, but good to get confirmation.
What I eventually did was change all my repos that had a 11.1 in it to 11.2(provided that particular 11.2 rep was already up) and then I followed up with a “zypper dup” which took ages to complete but as far as I can tell I now have a complete 11.2 system.
What I’m not sure about yet is whether it just installed everything that was in 11.2 or only updated my system, but I guess time will tell.
Thanks for all the other input, a clean reinstall was not an option for me at this point as this box will be replaced soon anyway.