Just installed 11.2 alpha2 and it’s telling me there are no updates, surely this isn’t right or has there been no updates since alpha 2 was released?
If I go to YaST > Online Update it tells me “No update repository configured yet. Run configuration workflow now?” which then takes me to a screen which says “Current Update Repository” “(none)”
But if I go to YaST > Software Repositories then it shows I have the following repos:
openSUSE-11.2-Debug (not enabled)
openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss
openSUSE-11.2-OSS
openSUSE-11.2-Source (not enabled)
openSUSE-11.2-Update
I’m a bit confused by all of this, I have tried suse a few times but the package management/repo’s has always confused me.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Note openSUSE-11.2 has not been released yet for regular use. Also, there is no alpha2, so I assume you mean milestone2.
Note openSUSE-11.2 milestone2 is not stable, and it should not be used as a regular openSUSE desktop. It has many bugs … much more than a GM release. It can definitely colour (the wrong way) your perception of openSUSE.
Instead you should be using openSUSE-11.1 if you wish a more stable openSUSE environment.
. But if your intention is to test and raise bug reports, then WELCOME !!! We need all the help we can get.
If you’re out on testing openSUSE 11.2 and you want updates, in fact what you want is to run Factory. I used Milestone 1 to switch to Factory. This is what my repos look like, mind, you don’t need them all.
| Alias | Naam | Ingeschakeld | Vernieuwen
—±---------------------------------------------------------±---------------------------------------------------------±-------------±----------
1 | Community | Community | Ja | Ja
2 | Factory_Non-OSS | Factory Non-OSS | Ja | Ja
3 | Games | Games | Ja | Ja
4 | KDE4 | KDE4 | Ja | Ja
5 | KDE4_Playground | KDE4 Playground | Ja | Ja
6 | Mozilla_Stable | Mozilla Stable | Ja | Ja
7 | Multimedia | Multimedia | Ja | Ja
8 | OpenOffice_Unstable | OpenOffice Unstable | Nee | Ja
9 | Open_Office | Open Office | Nee | Ja
10 | QT | QT | Ja | Ja
11 | Xorg | Xorg | Ja | Ja
12 | ftp.skynet.be-suse | Packman Repository | Ja | Ja
13 | home:dmitry_serpokryl:Enlightenment-cvs-core-metapackage | home:dmitry_serpokryl:Enlightenment-cvs-core-metapackage | Ja | Ja
14 | home:rwooninck | home:rwooninck | Ja | Ja
15 | openSUSE:Factory | openSUSE:Factory | Ja | Ja
To switch to Factory you would at least need numbers 2 and 15. That will give you a lot of updates and bring you Factory. In the repos configured so far, there’s no updates. The Milestone releases simply are not real releases they’re meant for testing and just a bit more than a Factory snapshot.
I know 11.2 is testing (triple booting at the moment, Fedora 11 for stable then testing Ubuntu Karmic and openSUSE 11.2. Love testing bleeding edge stuff >:))
Thanks I’ll add the factory repo’s, used to testing Ubuntu and Fedora where you install the alpha and then just keep updating until the final release.
oldcpu wrote:
>
> Note openSUSE-11.2 has not been released yet for regular use. Also,
> there is no alpha2, so I assume you mean milestone2.
>
> Note openSUSE-11.2 milestone2 is not stable, and it should not be used
> as a regular openSUSE desktop. It has many bugs … much more than a GM
> release. It can definitely colour (the wrong way) your perception of
> openSUSE.
>
> Instead you should be using openSUSE-11.1 if you wish a more stable
> openSUSE environment.
>
> . But if your intention is to test and raise bug reports, then WELCOME
> !!! We need all the help we can get.
>
Where do you file the bug reports for Milestone 2? When I went to Bugzilla
on Sunday there was no option for openSuSE 11.2 listed as a category.
Thanks
–
Russ [openSUSE 11.1 (2.6.27.23-0.1-default [x86_64]) KDE 4.2.4 release 2,
Intel DX48BT2 Core 2 Dual E7200. 4 GB DDR III GeForce 8400 GS, 320GB Disc
(2)]
We give general guidance here in our “call for testers” stickie:
openSUSE-11.2 - CALL FOR TESTERS - openSUSE Forums
Last I looked I’m sure bugzilla did have an openSUSE-11.2 option … has my memory failed me again ? … I confess its been over a week since I last checked.
Typical, just after I’d read your replys I found an article on distrowatch that explains about milestones and factory and shows hows to upgrade from a milestone release to factory.
So now my repo’s are set for factory I just keep updating, then once 11.2 is released turn off factory repo’s and enable 11.2 repos? (Will probably do a fresh install anyway but just wanted to check)
Starting to get the hang of suse now, got to say it’s the best KDE distro I’ve tried (and I’ve tried loads)
Or just leave them on.
The bleeding edge is long…
Or perhaps just goes round in circles. 
You can’t just mess around with repos to change versions. Though I think it is where we’re going. Composing your own install from the repos. Picking parts of this, parts of that.
oldcpu wrote:
> Note openSUSE-11.2 milestone2 is not stable, and it should not be used
> as a regular openSUSE desktop. It has many bugs … much more than a GM
> release. It can definitely colour (the wrong way) your perception of
> openSUSE.
I’ve found it freer of major bugs than 11.1. At least the ones that caused
me most grief. For instance:
(1) Dolphin is now usable for the first time. Open tabs are remembered from
one session to the next whereas in KDE4.2 I had to re-create them all after
each logoff/on. Needless to say, I used Konqueror instead.
(2) SUSE brand of OOo now seems OK. In 11.1, the graphs were mangled - x-
axis labels lost for example - so I ditched it and downloaded the version
from OOo instead.
(3) Since yesterday’s update, graphics seem more stable than in KDE4.2 in
that I’m not seeing problems with the task-bar’s pop-up info boxes deleting
underlying application displays.
The two most irritating bugs in M2 for me were keyboard problems and Kontact
startup failures but these seem to have been fixed by yesterday’s update.
I suppose that as soon as I send this I’ll get kicked in the teeth by a bug
that’s been waiting to ambush me.
–
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
“I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.”
Oh, yes we have updates now…1221 new packages available on my laptop. I was expecting the usual couple of depency conflicts (using several repos), but NONE. The software installer just gave me the big list of packages marked for updating, I clicked accept, 3.59 GB is coming my way. I’ll post about findings.
lol!A very big cheer to the builders !!! rotfl!
I’ve got quite the compilation myself, and have had a quite stable system so far (as Milestone, non-alpha releases are concerned!):
| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh
—±------------------------------------±----------------------------------------------------±--------±-------
1 | Default-Update-Repository | Default-Update-Repository | Yes | Yes
2 | Factory_Desktop_KDE_4.3 | Factory Desktop KDE 4.3 | Yes | Yes
3 | QT_4.5_Factory | QT 4.5 Factory | Yes | Yes
4 | download.opensuse.org-Community | openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Community | Yes | Yes
5 | download.opensuse.org-VirtualBox | openSUSE BuildService - Virtualization (VirtualBox) | Yes | Yes
6 | download.opensuse.org-mozilla | openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla | Yes | Yes
7 | ftp.skynet.be-suse | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes
8 | http-download.opensuse.org-19c2320f | http-download.opensuse.org-19c2320f | Yes | Yes
9 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.2-Debug | No | Yes
10 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes
11 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Oss | Yes | Yes
12 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.2-Source | No | Yes
I’ve got it installed as my main system on my laptop, and I’m not really having problems 
zypper dup as root works for me running it on a m7 machine now