User please be aware of changes to the URL structure for certain repositories in the Build Service, particularly KDE.
Use the repository manager in Yast to remove the old one/s and add in the new address. If your repositories were added by a OneClick installer, you might find this procedure a little tricky. In which case, reply to this thread with the result of this terminal code:
zypper lr -d
For all your information, the build service main directory is here: Index of /repositories
did the person(s) making the changes forget to pre-announce the plans,
execution dates and instructions the openSUSE Universe needed to cope?
Your guess is as good as mine
What’s with the re-restructuring? I had wondered about the KDE repositories not refreshing yesterday, but couldn’t find anything on this topic until today. Was it announced anywhere else?
WHAT? you don’t read that list every day…me either…nor do most
users on earth i suspect…
actually, in all fairness it was planned to be an invisible change
to users–the old address should have auto-forwarded to the new
address, and some did but a few dependencies didn’t (i’m told, due to
an error which has now been fixed)
they should all work now even if using the old addresses (i’m told–in
another mail list)…
And has been discussed in every IRC meeting since the one at 2010/04/01 (six of them).
So you need to read opensuse-kde or the IRC meeting (or just the minutes)… every three months.
It should have been announce in openSUSE News? Probably… but I’m not sure so much people read it anyway (for sure more than opensuse-kde…). I expect most people that reads openSUSE News to also read Planet openSUSE… and I suppose, even if I don’t remember any post, that someone commented it in his blog.
Now I’m confused. I thought I understood the repos, and being a newbie I’m keeping them down to a minimum. I don’t know where I read it, and I can’t find itbut somewhere on the Suse site there was an announcement that the 4.5 was now available and was stable. I rather agreed with this as my kids have 4.5 on their desktops on another distro and it’s fine. So I loaded it from here URL: Index of /repositories/KDE:/Release:/45/openSUSE_11.3 It seems to be working (but some of the widgets on the desktop aren’t. The ‘fancy graphics’ driver is switched off by another app even after startup, but I can live with that. Not a fan of wobbly windows.Shall I leave this repo ‘on’ or disable it? will I get upgrades to fix these problems? Am I connected to the factory repo? Lots of general questions, I know, but there must be lots of confused newbies out there, who like me are new to Linux and finding it a little hard to get over their reluctance to push any buttons at all!
Keep up the good work on the forums-it’s a learning curve.
I upgraded from my previous KDE version in Yast using the repo that came up in Yast, which would be number 2 above, which wasn’t there before, then I used the switching to this Repo mode, as described in the instructions I had. So, yes it looks like that is what I did! Now I don’t know whether I should disable it or leave it?
