On 09/20/2011 11:36 AM, owend wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I’m new to opensuse, looking to go KDE - I’m a long-term Mint/Gnome
> user and I like some of the opensuse reviews and comments.
>
> So, I’ve installed 11.4, smooth apart from a problem with Grub due to
> several distros trying to multiboot, my fault! I’m in, as I’m writing
> this from 11.4 via Firefox.
>
> My problem is that I ran update in YaST with just two updates, took
> about a minute, great. I started to install Marble; checking the
> “Installation Summary” button in YaST shows that the system wants to
> download another 657Mb!!! I live in a rural area with around 1Mb
> broadband (variable), and downloading a full distro of about 700 Mb
> takes around three hours.
>
> Is this size of update/download normal? If so, I can’t afford the
> connection time to stick with suse, Mint has nothing like this size.
>
> Running su -c ‘zypper ref’ gives (summary only):
>
> The following product is going to be reinstalled:
> openSUSE 11.4
>
> The following package is going to change architecture:
> apparmor-profiles i586 -> noarch
>
>
> 212 packages to upgrade, 76 new, 1 to remove, 1 to change arch.
> Overall download size: 273.6 MiB. After the operation, additional 234.5
> MiB
> will be used.
> Continue? [y/n/?] (y): n
> owen@linux-jp2l:~>
>
>
> Which is a large amount but different to YaST’s figure.
>
> Advice greatly appreciated!
so, you come into openSUSE (-=WELCOME=- new poster, by the way) some six
or so months into the ‘cycle’ of openSUSE 11.4 and we are a FAST moving
distro…meaning, there have been LOTS and LOTS of security patches and
bug squashing updates since the release CD or DVD were made…so, i have
no idea what that only 2 updates was about, but the GIANT 6+Gb one is
most likely because if you had installed on release day, then by now
(months later) you might have had that 675mb of updates spread out
across the 180 or so days in between…
or, maybe 273.6 mb is the size of the Marble (i do not know, maybe it
needs to pull in a bunch of gnome basics) and the other 300+ are the
updates…i’d recommend you drop the Marble for now and instead allow
the updates (for security reasons one should move the eye candy to a
lower priority, maybe?)
also of MUCH lower priority (and just trying to give you info for next
time you have a questoin ): i have almost no idea how things work on
other linux forums, but here we like to see a clear subject which
actually reflects the question asked (that way the folks with the
knowledge might find your subject interesting and look in–and, folks
who know nothing about the subject and just skip it)…which most often
means that each new problem/person is just about forced to begin a new
thread for each problem (like, your quesion is only generally about
updating, but specifically more like: Is a CD sized update normal?)
another way of saying that is: your question has mostly nothing to do
with the thread it landed in…
again, welcome…hope you find a way to try out openSUSE…probably the
least pain way on a slow connection would be to download the DVD via
torrent a few days after initial release, install from that and then
take the updates as they come…i had one this morning, took about a
minute…had one a couple of days ago took less than three minutes, etc
etc etc etc etc…from where you are today, i recommend you open YaST,
go Software Repositories and make sure you have only FOUR repo enabled:
oss, non-oss, update and packman, no others! if there are other disable
them (for now), then go YaST > Online Update and you will see packages
split between “Security” and “Recommended” take all the security
updates, and mark the others (right click and select “Do not install” or
“Taboo”) then click “Accept” and walk away from the machine…do not
abort it or force kill it…yes, it might take an hour or two…
others might have other recommendations, listen…
–
DD
openSUSE®, the “German Automobiles” of operating systems
