Best Way to Upgrade from OpenSuse 11.3 to Factory

Hello,
my name is Marko and I’m new.
I’m currently trying to upgrade my OpenSuse 11.3 to Factory.
I have downloaded and installed the KDE 4.5 LiveCD of OpenSuse and installed o a VM before try on a real system.
Then I have added the factory repos but everytime I try to upgrade from 11.3 to Factory, I get many errors about breaking dependencies and Architecture Change.

For example, I have this problem:

libvmtools0-2010-03-20-5-1x86_64 requires libicuuc.so.42()(64bit), but this requirement cannot be provided

I have this choose:

install libvmtools0-2010.03.20-5.1.i586 despite inferior architecture

deinstallation of libvmtools

keep obsolete libicu

break libvmtools0

So now, what should I do?

What is the best way to install a factory version of OpenSuse?

Thank You So Much to everyone that will help me.

Marko

Welcome Marko to openSUSE forums.
Well, i am a little bit confused, are you trying to upgrade to Factory for OS or Factory for KDE?

Remove all 11.3 repos
add oss and non-oss from factory

zypper dup

Thank You for your answer.
I have deleted all the repo except the factory one but now I got an error about libicu with 6 packages.
Now I’m downloading the OpenSuse 11.3 DVD and I’ll do a minimal install and then I’ll try again to upgrade to factory.

Is there a better way to upgrade from stable to factory?

On 08/18/2010 10:36 AM, caf4926 wrote:
>
> Remove all 11.3 repos
> add oss and non-oss from factory
>
> zypper dup

Are you really sure you want to do this? As 11.3 gradually evolves into 11.4,
Factory will be extremely unstable. Based on the experiences with 11.3, I would
not recommend such a change until 11.4 M5 or M6 for anything but a sandbox machine.

I have 11.4 running and I did an update yesterday, there were a lot of things to work around as gnome went to 2.31

But really, this sort of move is not for someone who doesn’t really already know the answers.

On 2010-08-18 18:06, P4lp4t1n3 wrote:
>
> Thank You for your answer.
> I have deleted all the repo except the factory one but now I got an
> error about libicu with 6 packages.
> Now I’m downloading the OpenSuse 11.3 DVD and I’ll do a minimal install
> and then I’ll try again to upgrade to factory.
>
> Is there a better way to upgrade from stable to factory?

Do you really know what you are doing?

You have to expect lots of problems, harder than what you describe (which is a trivial one), and you
have to know how to solve most of them on your own - if you really, really, want to run factory.

Eventually, there will be a DVD or CD to install factory. Months away, probably.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))

You should not upgrade your stable installation to an unstable one. I guarantee that there will be a point that at some point
an upgrade will completely fail and if you don’t know how to recover you will have to do a complete reinstall.

Instead do a fresh install on a separate partition. Using a 11.3 disk at the boot screen it f4 and choose the install from network option inter the factory repo
in the dialog. ( I don’t think there are any iso’s for 11.4 yet.)

Thanks for your reply, I’ll try to boot with F4 option and install OpenSuse directly from Factory Repos.

For all people that asked me why I would use factory distro, well from when I use Linux, I have never used a stable distro.

Actually I have installed Ubuntu Maverick, Mandriva Cooker, Debian SID, Arch with testing and unstable Repos and Fedora RawHide and Slackware Current.

OpenSuse is the only distro that everytime I try to upgrade to the Factory version I get ever dependencies problems however, I really like bleeding edge software

As soon as they get the first milestone release out, you’ll find it easier.
It can be tricky in openSUSE I agree.

For me 11.4 is looking nice.