hey, opensuse noob here. How do I get rid of this message so I can update? http://i.imgur.com/UJScKmF.png
You apparently installed libfreetype from some 3rd party repo, so you cannot install the libfreetype patch.
Deselect it, and you should be able to install the other updates.
Please run “zypper patch” and post the output to get more information about the conflict.
And please post your repo list as well:
zypper lr -d
zypper lr -d
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service---+---------------------------+------------------------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1 | Google-Chrome | Google-Chrome | Yes | No | 99 | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 |
2 | ftp.gwdg.de-suse | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/packman/suse/openSUSE_13.2/ |
3 | google-chrome | google-chrome | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 |
4 | openSUSE-13.2-0 | openSUSE-13.2-0 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-MATSHITADVD-RAM_UJ8B0_YL98_426674 |
5 | opensuse-guide.org-repo | libdvdcss repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/13.2/ |
6 | repo-debug | openSUSE-13.2-Debug | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/13.2/repo/oss/ |
7 | repo-debug-update | openSUSE-13.2-Update-Debug | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/13.2/ |
8 | repo-debug-update-non-oss | openSUSE-13.2-Update-Debug-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/13.2-non-oss/ |
9 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-13.2-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.2/repo/non-oss/ |
10 | repo-oss | openSUSE-13.2-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.2/repo/oss/ |
11 | repo-source | openSUSE-13.2-Source | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/13.2/repo/oss/ |
12 | repo-update | openSUSE-13.2-Update | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2/ |
13 | repo-update-non-oss | openSUSE-13.2-Update-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2-non-oss/ |
14 | subpixel | subpixel | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/muzlocker/openSUSE_Factory/ |
And nothing happened when I pressed “run zypper patch”
it is zypper patch not run zypper patch
You could go into yast - software management search for libfreetype and see what is what in the version tab at bottom right
BTW that is a FONT and as such general not considered critical.
Ah, apparently we access the zypper patch in the terminal because the application launcher had “run zypper patch” and not “zypper patch.”
It’s finally updating again. Thank you guys for your help!
libfreetype is not a font at all.
It is a library that applications (and the system) use to load fonts.
And that error is of course also preventing the installation of all other updates…
??? I don’t understand that.
The “application launcher” does not have zypper at all.
And the update applet doesn’t run zypper either (and definitely not “run zypper patch”… 
).
As I already said, you probably installed libfreetype from some other repo, likely #12 in your list (“subpixel”).
The problem is that this repo contains a lower version of libfreetype (2.4.11 vs. 2.5.3 in the standard repos), so that patch is trying to be installed, which fails because your packages are from another repo (an update doesn’t switch packages to versions from another repo by default).
If you still get that error message, you should probably lock that patch. Please ask again in that case, and I’ll explain to you how.