I am running openSUSE 12.3 Gnome 3.8.1 on a 64bit system
It seems that my package updates through the Software Update application is no longer working. This worked fine until fairly recently. I have upgraded Gnome to 3.8.1 and I am not sure if this is related to this upgrade. I have been getting the periodic notifications that there are software updates ready and they have worked fine.
Recently however the notifications have come up and when I have accepted they go ahead the Software update goes through the “Refreshing List”, displays all the relevant updates (currently 282 updates available) - I click on the Install Updates and it goes though to Resolving Dependensies and then does absolutely nothing more.
There appears to be no activity in fetching any updates and I can’t even see light activity on the modem router - and I have left the system for a few hours to see if it will continue.
If, however, I use YAST and do an Oline Upadate from there it will go through a set of updates if there are any. It does not show the package updates from this method of updates and I assume this is more of a system update (am I right?). Anyway this works if there are any updates.
Back to the package updates:
I have tried rebooting and refreshing the Software Repositories and it makes no difference.
How can I try to do the package updates from the command line to see if it will solve this problem?
Well, I can reply to part of my own question.
I have found the zypper commands to do the updates from the command line and it’s busy doing all the updates okay.
zypper ref (refresh all the software repositories)
zypper up (update all installed packages)
Whether this will solve the problem of the updates not working from the Gnome desktop we’ll have to see.
I’ll post back in here later when I’ve tried again.
The command line updates went through fine. Rebooted and the Gnome Software Updates app tells me now that everything is up to date.
So we’ll have to see if this app will do the updates next time.
Hope this exercise helps someone else.
On 05/26/2013 06:16 AM, garthkh wrote:
> Hope this exercise helps someone else.
i think the only thing you missed knowing (WHAT, you were not born
knowing?) is there are several kinds of updates/upgrades/advances in
software available…
one kind are security patches and major bug fixes–they flow through
YaST Online Update (YOU) or via “zypper patch”…some folks who want
the most stability they can get only install those kinds…and, they
keep the system secure and fix the major problems in a version which
is never more than 8 months away from being completely replaced with
the next version (if the user so chooses–s/he can choose to run any
version for the life of that version–usually about 18 months).
another kind of new software available is the incremental advances in
subsystem and applications (as opposed to “security patches and major
bug fixes”) which can be installed automatically with “zypper up” or
manually in YaST Software management (by purposefully selecting the
higher numbered version offered)
it is possible to go through the life of a version and do only the
usually risk-free “zypper patch” or YOU…but, if you do that the
packagekit running in KDE/GNOME under different name (apper in kde,
gnome i do not know) will ‘complain’ that updates (those which only
flow through 'zypper up or YaST Software Management) await your
approval to install)…
some folks disable the gnome/kde irritant and just run “zypper patch”
or “zypper up” when the mood strikes them…
others use the gnome/kde thing to remind them to run “zypper patch”
or “zypper up” to make the thing become quiet again.
the choice is yours (personally i kill the gnome/kde thing and then
run “zypper patch” daily, or every time i boot, or when i see notice
(in mail list, news or announcements) that there is a new security
patch available–others do the zypper thing weekly, right after a
real good backup…which is probably “the best” way to ensure you
don’t loose Aunt Tillie’s emails…)
ymmv.
–
dd
http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat
On 2013-05-26 09:03, dd wrote:
> or manually in YaST Software management (by purposefully selecting the
> higher numbered version offered)
Right click on right hand panel (qt version of yast), all in this list,
update if newer version available.
You can do that one repo at a time (it will not switch repos, anyway),
or all of them at a go, if you display the @system pseudorepo.
Packman is an exception: sometimes versions go back in the numbers, so
“update to newer” does not select the updates because they appear
regressions. They display in red, and you have to select them manually.
Even the keys “+” or “>” fail, you have to use the mouse.
And sometimes you get conflicts to solve.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)