Cannot upgrade 11.2 RC2 to final?

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#1

Hello all,

First off, I’m fairly new to Opensuse, but not linux in general. I just had a really simple question (it’s embarrassing). I installed 11.2 RC2 and it works perfectly, but unfortunately, I cannot update to final? I run zypper dup and it says that there’s nothing to do. I don’t remember receiving an upgrade to final within the last week or so. Is there a way to verify? And if I don’t have final installed, how can I convince zypper to do it? I’m unfamiliar with the package management on Opensuse.

Thanks in advance!

#2

Post result of

zypper lr -d
#3

did you run zypper ref first? and then zypper dup.

#4

Thanks for the quick response. Here’s the info you requested:

#  | Alias                 | Name                  | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                                  | Service                 
---+-----------------------+-----------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------                 
1  | KDE:43                | KDE:43                | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/43/openSUSE_11.2/                     |                         
2  | KDE:Backports         | KDE:Backports         | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Backports/openSUSE_11.2/              |                         
3  | KDE:Community         | KDE:Community         | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.2_KDE_43/ |                         
4  | Opensuse-11.2-Contrib | Opensuse-11.2-Contrib | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/11.2:/Contrib/standard/          |                         
5  | Packman-11.2_1        | Packman-11.2          | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/11.2/                                              |                         
6  | VLC-11.2              | VLC-11.2              | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/11.2/                                      |
7  | repo-debug            | openSUSE-11.2-Debug   | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/                       |
8  | repo-non-oss          | openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss/                         |
9  | repo-oss              | openSUSE-11.2-Oss     | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/                             |
10 | repo-source           | openSUSE-11.2-Source  | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/                      |
11 | repo-update           | openSUSE-11.2-Update  | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2/
#5

Excuse the double post, but yes I did.

#6

Are you sure you didn’t already update?

#7

I remember doing an update, but it was on 11/3/09. I didn’t think anything of it and it wasn’t a large update.

Running cat /etc/SuSE-release states this:

openSUSE 11.2 (i586)
VERSION = 11.2
#8

There you go then. Looks good.

#9

But you might want to edit your repos in accordance with this:
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums

#10

Thanks I appreciate the help. I’ll take a look at that :slight_smile:

#11

Yes, I also had rc2 installed and worried about the same thing.

I also remembered cat’ing /etc/SuSE-release and seeing i t said simply 11.2, rather than “11.2 rc2”, so it’s hard to know whether you have have 11.2 proper.

I did a Yast update but then I read this:

Updating openSUSE - openSUSE

Basically this recommends goign into Software Packages|RM groups in Yast, highlighting zzz-all on the LHS panel and clicking any package on the RHS panel, and clicking the context menu on “update only if new”.

This now did bring on a biggish download (128M) and a considerable amount of activity. I worried that it was installing a bunch of packages I hadn’t requested, but I don’t think so.

Afterwards I read this thread and zypper ref and zypper dup both report nothing to do.

zypper lr -d output doesn’t appear very informative to my untrained eye, so I’m still left with the doubt that I may not have the full monty 11.2. In many ways, if there was some library which we know had changed from 11.2rc2 to 11.2, then just checking up on this one library would be satisfactory enough to know that we were truly upgraded.