I keep getting a little question mark in my system tray. When I try to check for updates, it drives me to a page asking me to register the product I’ve purchased (?)
Can I just shut the thing off and update my stuff manually?
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For opensuse you may need to register but I am fairly sure it’s free.
For the enterprise products (SLES/SLED) registration is definitely
required and costs $50 or so but opensuse is free.
Good luck.
geocrash wrote:
| I keep getting a little question mark in my system tray. When I try to
| check for updates, it drives me to a page asking me to register the
| product I’ve purchased (?)
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| Can I just shut the thing off and update my stuff manually?
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Hello
It sounds more like your running SLED, I don’t recall the update repositories in OpenSuse having such a process.
As already said, SLED updates are only free for 30 days (you can get an activation code from the Novell download page for SLED) but I believe entering no key has the same affect.
how do I tell if I’m running SLED?
cat /etc/SuSE-release
I have been seeing this too, especially until the RC stage of opensuse11. For me it was just the tray applet that could not connect to a update repo.
YAST2/online update/packages/update-all-packages-if-newer-version-available or “zypper dup” on the CLI worked fine for me though.
Since the suse GM repos are online for me the tray icon updater is no longer a “?” anymore and show some updates occasionally, not all updates I get through zypper however and that is strange imho.
stefan