I really like openSUSE but I still have a trouble: What is the best way
to keep the system up to date? Should i just let do the update icon in
the task bar his job or should I use zypper up, dup, up -t
package…what are the differences? I read some manuals but I still do
not really understand the differences between these update
possibilities…
Until 11.1 with KDE4.2 I didn’t have any problems with the automatic
updates you configure in YAST. With KDE4.2 it always had some kupdate
GUI problem. I didn’t like KDE4.2 anyway so I got the 11.1 LiveCD with
KDE3.5 image am installing it now.
~don
If the tray icon is doing what it’s supposed to be doing then just use
that.
If it keeps turning into a red triangle with an exclamation mark in it
you’ll want to use either YaST software management or zypper.
> Until 11.1 with KDE4.2 I didn’t have any problems with the automatic
> updates you configure in YAST. With KDE4.2 it always had some kupdate
> GUI problem. I didn’t like KDE4.2 anyway so I got the 11.1 LiveCD with
> KDE3.5 image am installing it now.
> ~don
> Reply With Quote And I was just wondering what the hell that blue arrow in my tray was
while reading this thread, turns out it’s a working KDE 4.2 updater
But what are now the differences between these up date possibilities? I
see that the update icon doesn’t install new packages when they are
available, but zypper up or zypper up -t package does.
What I’m going to say is for openSUSE 11.1, doesn’t applies to 11.0.
“zypper up” is the same than “zypper up -t package”. It’s the correct
way to update.
There exists a “zypper lu” command that only list updates, without
installing them. Since 11.1 the updates listed by “lu” should be the
same than the ones listed by “up”.
The KDE update applet, by default with the PackageKit backend, shows
the updates of “zypper lu -t patch”. If you check the option to show all
updates it should do a “zypper lu” (zypper lu -t package)… but it
seems the PackageKit backends doesn’t supports it. With the ZYpp backend
it works correctly.
So, the update applet will show official updates, but no updates from
Packman. You can change to the ZYpp backend to also see Packman updates,
but I don’t expect this backend to be further developed… and I already
saw a problem trying to update something.
If you don’t mind about Packman updates you can use the update
applet… but if you want them I would just run a “zypper -v up” from
time to time, removing the applet.
Don’t use “zypper dup”, it isn’t just a more powerful “zypper up” but
something different that you will just want to use to update to openSUSE
11.2. It can change packages from Packman for versions without
multimedia support.
