The online update today gave the following error message:
patch openSUSE-2016-183-1.noarch conflicts with flash-
player.i586 < 11.2.202.569-2.88.1 provided by flash-
player-11.2.202.559-1.1.i586
So I unticked it and did the update without flash player. What is wrong here?
Cheers
Uli
Something changed look in the Yast software at flash force the change to packman
Thanks, gogalthorp, I am only surprised as I changed all multimedia packages to packman and - to be sure it stays that way - changed packman’s priority to 85. May be flash player was not included then. Hopefully this buggy software dies its natural death soon.
CHeers
uli
Flash updated fine for me. This is with 64-bit system. According to the version tab, the update repo does have the 32-bit update to 11.2.202.569-2.88.1
Maybe you are connected to a mirror that is not fully updated. Try again later. Or, as gogalthorp suggested, switch flash to come from packman.
Actually I think having the version from Packman installed is what causes the problem here in the first place.
The package in the update repo has a higher revision (2.88.1 vs. 1.1), so the package management wants to apply the update.
But as it comes from another repo, this is not possible.
I would therefore suggest to switch to the official version from the update repo instead to “fix” the problem.
That’s possible.
I switched to the packman version back in December. Then I had second thoughts, and switched back.
It probably should work. However, there’s a “kde” applet for flash which is not in packman. So when I briefly switched to packman, I removed that. My guess is that if you don’t remove that, you will run into problems. And you would also need to switch the corresponding gnome flash applet to packman for consistency (I think that one is still there in packman).
Thank you, everyone, for the suggestions. It seems after taking the update form packman as gogalthorp suggested solved the problem. The only thing that surprised me is that I switched all multimedia packets to packman and changed the priority of this packman repo to 85 after the update to 13.2 shortly after it was released. Now when I checked the version tab the installed flash plugin was from opensuse (probably non oss) and switching to packman I received the version number requested from the update. But either flash was not switched to packman with all the other multimedia packets after the install or sometime it must have switched back even though packman has a higher priority.
Anyway the problem is solved now.
Thanks again
Uli
At that time there was no flash-player in Packman yet.
They only added it when it got dropped from the distribution (it is still available and updated in 13.2, so they actually wouldn’t need to have it for 13.2).
And switching the packages is a one-time action, so that explains why you still have the openSUSE flash-player (packages are not switched to versions from other repos automatically).
Repo priorities only come into play when you install a new package (or when you run “zypper dup”, but not “up” or “patch”).
Anyway, I don’t see a problem here with the openSUSE version. Maybe you had a mixture of versions installed? E.g. flash-player from openSUSE and flash-player-gnome from Packman.
Thank you, wolfi323.
At that time there was no flash-player in Packman yet.
That explains why it was not in packman
Repo priorities only come into play when you install a new package (or when you run “zypper dup”, but not “up” or “patch”).
Thanks for that, wolfi323, I received that advice from the forum when I had a question on the computer running Tumbleweed. Of course there I always use zypper dup. I presumed it is similar for zypper up if newer versions (numbers) come from a different repository. I learned something again!
Maybe you had a mixture of versions installed?
Yes, that seemed to have been the problem (but with the KDE version not the Gnome).
CHeers
Uli
flash-player-kde4 is not available in Packman at all (probably because it makes no sense for Plasma5 as it is for KDE4), only in openSUSE.