Long list of " The following package updates will NOT be installed"

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When I run updates I get a long list of packages for which it says ‘The following package updates will NOT be installed’. I’m wondering why not?

The only thing I can think of is I followed the guide in a sticky thread in the Multimedia forum to get codecs installed, and part of that is to change the vendor of some Opensuse packages to packman. Any ideas?

~> sudo zypper up
Retrieving repository 'openSUSE-11.2-Update' metadata [done]
Building repository 'openSUSE-11.2-Update' cache [done]     
Retrieving repository 'packman' metadata [done]             
Building repository 'packman' cache [done]                  
Loading repository data...                                  
Reading installed packages...                               

The following package updates will NOT be installed:
  faac GeoIP gstreamer-0_10-libnice gstreamer-0_10-plugins-farsight kaffeine 
  libass4 libcdda_interface0 libcdda_paranoia0 libdirac_decoder0             
  libdirac_encoder0 libdvdread4 libfaac0 libGeoIP1 libgssdp-1_0-2            
  libgupnp-1_0-3 libgupnp-igd-1_0-2 libmtp8 libnice0 libopencore-amrnb0      
  libopencore-amrwb0 libSoundTouch0 libxvidcore4 mjpegtools mozilla-nspr osc 
  python-cryptopp python-m2crypto python-numpy python-simplejson soundtouch  

The following packages are going to be upgraded:
  amsn libvlc5 libvlccore4 MozillaFirefox MozillaFirefox-translations-common 
  mozilla-xulrunner191 mozilla-xulrunner191-gnomevfs                         
  mozilla-xulrunner191-translations-common vlc vlc-gnome vlc-noX vlc-qt      

12 packages to upgrade.
Overall download size: 35.4 MiB. After the operation, additional 7.0 KiB will 
be used.                                                                      
Continue? [y/n/?] (y): n
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Please show us your repo list

zypper lr -d
Have you tried this way
http://tinyurl.com/yejwull

Vendor change with zypper would require
zypper dup -r reponame

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repolist is below. Yes, the process described in your link is what I did when I setup the system months ago.

# | Alias                                  | Name                                   | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                              | Service
--+----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1 | NVIDIA                                 | NVIDIA                                 | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.2/                                        |
2 | Tools                                  | Tools                                  | No      | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/openSUSE_11.2/         |
3 | non-oss                                | non-oss                                | Yes     | No      |   99     | yast2  | dir:///home/files/packages/non-oss                                               |
4 | openSUSE-11.2-Update                   | openSUSE-11.2-Update                   | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | dir:///home/files/packages/opensuse11.2updates                                   |
5 | openSUSE:Factory:Contrib:openSUSE_11.2 | openSUSE:Factory:Contrib:openSUSE_11.2 | No      | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:Factory:Contrib/openSUSE_11.2 |
6 | oss                                    | oss                                    | Yes     | No      |   99     | yast2  | dir:///home/files/packages/oss                                                   |
7 | packman                                | packman                                | Yes     | Yes     |   90     | rpm-md | dir:///home/files/packages/packman                                               |
8 | repo-debug                             | openSUSE-11.2-Debug                    | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/                   |
9 | vlc                                    | vlc                                    | No      | No      |   99     | rpm-md | dir:///home/files/packages/vlc                                                   |
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What happens with

zypper dup -r packman

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Hmm, so is the zypper dist-upgrade the command line equivalent of the procedure in your link? (http://tinyurl.com/yejwull)

I thought I’d switched everything to packman when I did the codec install procedure.

The following NEW packages are going to be installed:
  kaffeine-lang libsoftokn3 mozilla-nss-certs        

The following packages are going to be upgraded:
  faac gstreamer-0_10-libnice kaffeine libfaac0 libnice0 libopencore-amrnb0
  libopencore-amrwb0 libxvidcore4 mjpegtools mozilla-nspr python-m2crypto

The following packages are going to be downgraded:
  amrwb deluge faad2 GeoIP gstreamer-0_10-plugins-farsight gupnp ladspa
  libamrnb3 libamrwb3 libfaad2 libfreebl3 libGeoIP1 libgupnp-1_0-3
  libgupnp-igd-1_0-2 libmad0 libmp4v2 mozilla-nss perl-WWW-Curl sox

The following package is going to be reinstalled:
  libx264-88

The following packages are going to change vendor:
  amrwb                   Packman -> http://packman.links2linux.de
  faac                    Packman -> http://packman.links2linux.de
  gstreamer-0_10-libnice  openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
  kaffeine                openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
  libamrnb3               Packman -> http://packman.links2linux.de
  libamrwb3               Packman -> http://packman.links2linux.de
  libfaac0                Packman -> http://packman.links2linux.de
  libfreebl3              openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
  libnice0                openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
  libopencore-amrnb0      Packman -> http://packman.links2linux.de
  libopencore-amrwb0      Packman -> http://packman.links2linux.de
  libxvidcore4            Packman -> http://packman.links2linux.de
  mjpegtools              Packman -> http://packman.links2linux.de
  mozilla-nspr            openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
  mozilla-nss             openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
  python-m2crypto         openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de


11 packages to upgrade, 19 to downgrade, 3 new, 1 to reinstall, 16  to change
vendor.
Overall download size: 7.8 MiB. After the operation, additional 1.0 MiB will be
used.
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So go ahead

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Thanks, I think that did the trick

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Hope so
Well done :slight_smile: