I’v not seen any security or any other updates, including firefox for many months(since January or earlier). Is there anything wrong?
Please post result of
zypper lr -d
Have you tried zypper?
su terminal
zypper up
zypper lr -d
| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service
–±----------------±----------------±--------±--------±---------±------±-------±-------
1 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:/// |
Have you tried zypper?
su terminal
zypper up
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Nothing to do.
Refresh is off?
clamav is at 95.2, current is 0.96
su terminal
zypper mr -d 1
zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2/ updates
zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss/ non-oss
zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/ oss
Use your mouse to copy and paste the code in to the terminal, one at a time.
then do
zypper ref
then
zypper up
(a) accept licences
I forgot to save the terminal data. So, this is what I remember. All statements entered and successful. “314(?) packages to update. 8 new.”. Terminal showed download and install for those packages. Firefox is now at v3.59 — Looks like that did the job, thanks. 
I’m still going to wait and see if I get another update for anything. I’ll look for any updates on suse news(or where?) and see if they appear on updater applet.
The updater icon changed to software update available(not security). When I clicked on it, it requested the admin password. After, it didn’t do anything. When I went to yast to check for online updates. It showed software updates available. So, I clicked to download and install.
So I take it, things are better for you now?
The manual update worked. Software updater(icon) seems be not working right. Yast online update works. So, i’ll have to use yast for updating software. Taskbar icon(software update) will notify me of updates, but will not retrieve them if I enter admin password.
Personally, one of the first things I do in a new install is tell the updater applet NOT to start at boot and then I reboot. From then on I set up everything in Yast Software Management. And I run most of my updating from there too, as I use development repos. But zypper up works fine on a basic system once you have it all set up.
It worked fine in the last version of suse. Also, i’ll do that on the next install. Now, it’s giving me an error when trying to get updates. This time updates were in yast, but didn’t show in the updater. Can uninstall the updater applet? then reinstall. That might fix it. Thanks.