I have successfully installed openSUSE 11.04_ x64_KDE. I want to update but I am overwhelmed by the number of updates in KPackageKit. There are 182 available updates (40 packages to install and 121 packages to update). Some packages carry a red shield, some yellow shield and some a light bulb. I am assuming that these packages are marked based on the priority and significance. Can somebody here help me decide which updates are absolutely necessary or otherwise? Or should I install everything that is offered to be updated or installed?
I had tried to install openSUSE before but did not succeed but today I just did it.:good: I was having problems with bootloader, which I finally sorted out. So this is my first openSUSE installation to HDD and I need the forum help in determining what to update.
On 2011-05-31 16:06, fantab wrote:
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> ketheriel;2347080 Wrote:
>> You should trust the updates, they were issued for a reason!
>
> So I must update everything as it is? Okay.
> However 182 updates are, don’t you think, way too many.
I assume you only have active three repositories: oss, non-oss, and update.
Then, if you run YaST online update (aka YOU) you are safe.
I would first enable multiversion for the kernel.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
On 2011-05-31 15:36, caf4926 wrote:
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> I wouldn’t use Package kit either
Me neither.
>
> Open Yast > Software > Online Update
>
> or use the terminal and do:
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> Code:
> --------------------
> su -
> zypper up
> --------------------
Warning: what 'YOU does is equivalent to “zypper patch”. A “zypper up”
changes more things and is potentially more dangerous, specially for a
beginner. Those updates offered have less testing that the patches (those
in the update repo).
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
On 06/01/2011 02:03 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2011-05-31 15:36, caf4926 wrote:
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>> I wouldn’t use Package kit either
>
> Me neither.
>
> Warning: what 'YOU does is equivalent to “zypper patch”. A “zypper up”
> changes more things and is potentially more dangerous, specially for a
> beginner. Those updates offered have less testing that the patches (those
> in the update repo).
>
AH! so THAT is what is going on!
packagekit is offering, the same as the results of “up” while YaST
Online Update ‘only’ offers “patch”, yipee! i have been SO confused on
what was going on, but i knew to NOT let Kpackagekitchensinkandanchor
touch my stuff!!
we need to get this info shoved into a how-to (as in How to not let
package kit kill your system, also.) and i think oldcpu should put
something about this into the new-to-SUSE faqs
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dd CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP via openSUSE 11.4 [2.6.37.6-0.5] + KDE 4.6.0 + Thunderbird 3.1.10]
Dual booting with Sluggish Loser7 on Acer Aspire One D255
On 2011-06-01 08:56, DenverD wrote:
> On 06/01/2011 02:03 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> AH! so THAT is what is going on!
>
> packagekit is offering, the same as the results of “up” while YaST Online
> Update ‘only’ offers “patch”, yipee! i have been SO confused on what was
> going on, but i knew to NOT let Kpackagekitchensinkandanchor touch my stuff!!
I’ve never used packagekit except as a reminder of pending updates, so I
don’t know what it does exactly. But it is not “zypper up”, because I never
do a zypper up, nor the yast equivalent. For example, most of the
multimedia packages I have are old, I don’t bother to update them once they
work.
I only run YOU and packagekit keeps silent. Unless you have to configure it
somehow and I didn’t. :-?
And now it keeps silent because I have removed it, till I can do the
upgrade to 11.4…
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
On 06/01/2011 03:50 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> I’ve never used packagekit except as a reminder of pending updates,
i’ve not used package kit either…i treat it like i treated the
updaterapplet, simply as a signal that i needed to open YOU and do some
deciding on what to let in, or not…
but it was confusing since packagekit and YOU never agreed…i wondered
why as i marked packagekit to NOT install anything, after i’d used YOU
to do what i wanted…
i saw in one of the forums (but have not read closely) what seems to be
a dev asking for testing help…seems he recognizes that pk is broke!
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dd CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP via openSUSE 11.4 [2.6.37.6-0.5] + KDE 4.6.0 + Thunderbird 3.1.10]
Dual booting with Sluggish Loser7 on Acer Aspire One D255
On 2011-06-01 18:51, DenverD wrote:
> On 06/01/2011 03:50 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> but it was confusing since packagekit and YOU never agreed…i wondered why
> as i marked packagekit to NOT install anything, after i’d used YOU to do
> what i wanted…
>
> i saw in one of the forums (but have not read closely) what seems to be a
> dev asking for testing help…seems he recognizes that pk is broke!
If I remember correctly packagekit removes locks. There is a bugzilla on that.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)