Last night I have installed Opensuse 13.2 which is a new one for me. I have used linux a few times in the past, mostly Mint but really wanted to check out Opensuse as Suse was my first ever Linux (I think it was 4 or 5 lol).
I’m really impressed and want to keep it but a couple of things have happened and wold love to be able to resolve them. I’m not great with Linux tbh but I have some understanding and am more than capable of copy / pasting into terminal
Anyway, its coming up with quite a few updates to do (using KDE btw) now last night when clicking the review and install it brought a window up. I clicked something I think because since then when I select review and install nothing comes up so now I have the update icon and can select install but have no way of reviewing what’s installing or checking the progress. Can anyone help?
Also last night when it was updating it gave an error regarding not being able to find a repo which I think was the extras one, any ideas?
Finally I have to dual boot this laptop with Win7 for my web design apps but when booting the system it’s auto loading Suse and not giving any option to select which OS to use. Win7 is still there as can see it within Dolphin I just cannot get the option to boot to it. Any help with this?
Many thanks and sorry for what probably seem like newbie questions … Cheers guys
Just a remark: in general it’s preferable to ask unrelated questions in separate threads.
But anyway…
The update applet itself should show the progress after you click install.
So just click on the update icon to open it again.
You could also start Apper from the K-Menu to have a normal window. If you disable the updater applet in the system tray settings, clicking on “Review” would bring up Apper, the application, instead.
Other ways to install updates are YaST (Online Updates, Software Management) or zypper on the command line.
Also last night when it was updating it gave an error regarding not being able to find a repo which I think was the extras one, any ideas?
And what error was that exactly?
Maybe a temporary Internet/Network problem?
There is no “extras” repo on a standard installation.
Finally I have to dual boot this laptop with Win7 for my web design apps but when booting the system it’s auto loading Suse and not giving any option to select which OS to use. Win7 is still there as can see it within Dolphin I just cannot get the option to boot to it. Any help with this?
Delete the file /boot/grub2/grubenv to get your boot menu back. That’s a “problem” with the default btrfs filesystem. Grub2 cannot write to it, so if you set an entry to be booted (via KDE’s “Restart” menu e.g.), the whole menu will disappear forever because grub2 cannot reset it.
Or is the menu shown, but a Windows entry is missing?
So when doing an update it’s coming up with this message ‘Dependency Resolution failed’ “There is no update candidate for libjpeg8-8.0.2-30.5.1.i586” ?
Then seems to quit updating
When bypassing that particular update it then gives “There is no update candidate for unzip-6.00-26.4.1.i586”
You seem to have some conflict, maybe because you added additional repos and installed things from there, so some updates cannot be installed.
(PackageKit is not very good in resolving such conflicts, in particular it just fails when it can’t find a resolution instead of asking the user)
Additionally you could also run “sudo zypper up” and post the conflict messages, or try to resolve them yourself.
So only those two gave you problems?
Btw, I note that those two were the 32bit versions. Is this a 32bit or 64bit system?
Can you post the output of the following then?
rpm -qi libjpeg8 unzip
You shouldn’t have any problems with those repos…
That’s quite normal, it means that higher versions of those are available in other repos, but won’t be installed (Updates don’t switch packages to a version from another repo by default for safety reasons).
In your case, those are available in Packman too, which you should prefer anyway because they have more features (restricted codecs mainly).
So I’d recommend you switch all packages to the Packman versions, by running “sudo zypper dup --from 1”.
This should also get rid of that message (although the message in itself is just for your information).
But, did zypper want to install any packages? Did it print any conflict resolution messages?
Or did it just say “Nothing to do”, which would mean that you already installed all updates successfully…
Thanks Wolfie … zypper reports nothing to do. Yeah it was only those two problems. Will post the output from
rpm -qi libjpeg8 unzip
rpm -qi libjpeg8 unzip
Name : libjpeg8
Version : 8.0.2
Release : 30.5.1
Architecture: i586
Install Date: Tue 12 May 2015 04:37:26 PM BST
Group : System/Libraries
Size : 300416
License : BSD-3-Clause
Signature : RSA/SHA256, Mon 15 Dec 2014 11:23:49 AM GMT, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Source RPM : libjpeg-turbo-1.3.1-30.5.1.src.rpm
Build Date : Thu 04 Dec 2014 08:17:25 AM GMT
Build Host : cloud119
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org
Vendor : openSUSE
URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/libjpeg-turbo
Summary : The MMX/SSE accelerated JPEG compression/decompression library
Description :
This library contains MMX/SSE accelerated functions for manipulating
JPEG images.
Distribution: openSUSE 13.2
Name : unzip
Version : 6.00
Release : 26.4.1
Architecture: i586
Install Date: Tue 12 May 2015 04:37:03 PM BST
Group : Productivity/Archiving/Compression
Size : 253845
License : BSD-3-Clause
Signature : RSA/SHA256, Mon 09 Feb 2015 08:43:35 AM GMT, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Source RPM : unzip-6.00-26.4.1.src.rpm
Build Date : Fri 30 Jan 2015 02:09:22 PM GMT
Build Host : cloud126
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org
Vendor : openSUSE
URL : http://www.info-zip.org/
Summary : A program to unpack compressed files
Description :
UnZip is an extraction utility for archives compressed in .zip format
(known as “zip files”). Although highly compatible both with PKWARE’s
PKZIP™ and PKUNZIP utilities for MS-DOS and with Info-ZIP’s own Zip
program, our primary objectives have been portability and non-MS-DOS
functionality. This version can also extract encrypted archives.
Distribution: openSUSE 13.2
Yeah this is a 32-bit install. Running sudo zypper dup --from 1
Ok. I asked because sometimes 32bit packages might get pulled in to resolve conflicts on 64bit systems.
But as it is, all looks ok, and those two packages are the latest versions from the standard repos.
I’m not sure why you got the error message then, but it should be resolved now. Or do you still get it?
I cannot copy and paste it but this is the main message and it’s the same as the one mentioned at start of thread.
An error occured while trying to install the software repository, [opensuse:13.2:Ports|http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/opensuse:/13.2:/Ports/extra/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
Don’t use that 1-click install. VLC is available in the standard repos and in Packman (the latest version), so just enter YaST and install it, or use “sudo zypper in vlc”.
Btw, make sure to install vlc-codecs as well, to be able to play back files using restricted codecs.
An error occured while trying to install the software repository, [opensuse:13.2:Ports|http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/opensuse:/13.2:/Ports/extra/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
This repo doesn’t exist, but the above 1-click install apparently wants to add it. And adding it gives that error as the repo doesn’t exist.
That’s somehow caused by the repo setup, or maybe it’s even a bug/flaw on the search page as it doesn’t happen with other packages from the same (standard oss) repo…
But again, you don’t need that 1-click install anyway.
On Tue, 12 May 2015 15:16:01 +0000, ManuelBandito wrote:
> My apologies for posting different subjects within the same post.
No problem, but also it’s a good idea to use a meaningful subject - that
helps people skimming subject lines to determine if they can help you.
Many people see generic subjects and just skip to the next thread.
On Tue, 12 May 2015 15:16:01 +0000, ManuelBandito wrote:
> My apologies for posting different subjects within the same post.
No problem, but also it’s a good idea to use a meaningful subject - that
helps people skimming subject lines to determine if they can help you.
Many people see generic subjects and just skip to the next thread.
JimOn Tue, 12 May 2015 15:16:01 +0000, ManuelBandito wrote:
> My apologies for posting different subjects within the same post.
No problem, but also it’s a good idea to use a meaningful subject - that
helps people skimming subject lines to determine if they can help you.
Many people see generic subjects and just skip to the next thread.
Jim
Very true and a good point, one I will bear in mind in the future, cheers
