Hi.
Since weeks I have a huge update with more than 2000 packages and yast2 makes me questions I dont know how to answer or decide.
I dont know what to do, maybe a fresh install?. Please give me some advice about this.
Thanks in advance.
Hi tech_bot,
how can we help you if you don’t show us the questions that you don’t know how to answer? 
Cris
I not using tumbleweed anymore but as far as I remember usually have these huge updates. You don’t need to do a fresh install.
Run “zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change”, that’s the recommended and preferred way to update Tumbleweed.
If that still asks you questions you cannot answer, feel free to post them for further help.
Regarding the “huge update”: the distribution was/had to be completely rebuilt recently because the default compiler was switched to GCC7.
That’s life with Tumbleweed (or any rolling distribution)…
Thanks to all for the quick responses.
Maybe that switch to GCC7 is the reason but after, maybe, 5 months is the first time it happens to me.
I did the question that way cause I thought it happened to more users. What is missing? The yast’s questions are like choose between several options about install that or this package, not to install this and yes that other… etc; but to much questions to be writen here because until I dont answer one I dont get the next >:).
Il’l try when return home that update with zypper.
Many thanks again.
As there is no simple equivalent with YaST for
zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change
I do not think people here are interested in what YaST said, whatever you were doing with it (you did not even explain that). But as said, when you get errors with the zypper statement shown, please post. And when it still is a long list, please post at least the first 20-30 lines or so. We can not help on “story telling” alone. We need computer facts.
Hi, tech_bot,
You’re right about the reason of the huge number of packages to be updated. 2000+ is normal. It’s because of GCC7. And you could read more on this in this thread of mailing list: https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2017-06/msg00015.html
As for the selections, if you don’t know for sure, you could run the command,
sudo zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change
as suggested previously by @wolfi323 and @hcvv, in command line such as in Konsole under KDE environment, so that you can easily copy the output here for further help. For example,
cnzhx@a:~> sudo zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change
[sudo] password for root:
Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you continue. See 'man zypper' for more information about this command.
Retrieving repository 'M17N_Fonts' metadata ..........................................................[done]
Building repository 'M17N_Fonts' cache ...............................................................[done]
Retrieving repository 'packman' metadata .............................................................[done]
Building repository 'packman' cache ..................................................................[done]
Retrieving repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss' metadata .........................................[done]
Building repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss' cache ..............................................[done]
Retrieving repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss' metadata .............................................[done]
Building repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss' cache ..................................................[done]
Retrieving repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Update' metadata ..........................................[done]
Building repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Update' cache ...............................................[done]
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Computing distribution upgrade...
2 Problems:
Problem: problem with installed package dkms-2.3-4.1.noarch
Problem: problem with installed package liba52-0-0.7.5+svn613-1.27.x86_64
Problem: problem with installed package dkms-2.3-4.1.noarch
Solution 1: install dkms-2.3-1.1.noarch (with vendor change)
http://packman.links2linux.de --> openSUSE
Choose the above solution using '1' or skip, retry or cancel [1/s/r/c] (c):
I am sure you could get specific help on this issue by presenting it like this.
IF I choose option “1” for the first problem, I get,
Choose the above solution using '1' or skip, retry or cancel [1/s/r/c] (c): 1
Problem: problem with installed package liba52-0-0.7.5+svn613-1.27.x86_64
Solution 1: install liba52-0-0.7.5+svn613-1.2.x86_64 (with vendor change)
http://packman.links2linux.de --> openSUSE
This is because liba52 is now in the default repositories of openSUSE Tumbleweed instead of packman repo. (Yes, I have delayed my updates for several days for testing purpose and then I have this for this post.)
Regards,
CnZhx
Quick question. I’m showing vendor switch for liba52 and libmpg123 from packman to opensuse. Is this going to break encode or decode for media or is this simply a reflection of the mp3 license thing from a few weeks ago? I googled around for some info, but I’m kind of new to suse… I’ve only been doing “zypper up” for my updates until I saw this thread.
No the mp3 codec patents have expired and now can legally be included as open source so can now be included in openSUSE
Yes to the latter.
I googled around for some info, but I’m kind of new to suse… I’ve only been doing “zypper up” for my updates until I saw this thread.
Accept the changes. It’s already been mentioned here…
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/525121-zypper-wants-vendor-change?p=2824750#post2824750
Ok guys, I tryed zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change and got messages about curl… cant resolv downloads.opensuse.org or so.
Then tryed again by Yast2 and answered to the questions about vlc-gstreamer-… and it updates everything.
As usual when new kernel I installed nvidia driver (381.22) using the .run installer and it works OK with kernel 4.11.3.
Just most windows decorator themes stop working on plasma 5.10, now I have to find some beautiful themes already updated.
Thank you all you for your kindness.
Greetings.
Are you behind a proxy?
That could explain your problem with curl.
If so, you have to export a few environment variables for the proxy to work with CLI programs.
e.g. this is my setup:
cristiano@xmper8q3 ~]**$** env|grep proxy
https_**proxy**=http://127.0.0.1:3128
http_**proxy**=http://127.0.0.1:3128
no_**proxy**=localhost, 127.0.0.1, .AMENDED.it
socks_**proxy**=
gopher_**proxy**=
ftp_**proxy**=http://127.0.0.1:3128
Hope this helps.
Cris
Many thanks Cris, but no I’m not using a proxy. Anyhow everything seems Ok now and as I said before just most of my windows themes stop working.
Thanks again.
Yes, its already fixed with plasma 5.10.1
Many thanks.