Tumbleweed & Plasma 5.10.2

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I have Tumbleweed installed on four PC’s: my laptop, my wife’s desktop, and two old PC’s (1 laptop, 1 desktop) that I keep updated for eventual give-away to needy individuals. For many months updating all four has been a breeze.

My update process, via Yakuake, is pretty simple…
sudo zypper ref
sudo zypper lu
sudo zypper up

Three of the systems went through the Plasma 5.10.2 update process fine, but my wife’s didn’t - it’s stuck on 5.10.1, seemingly with issues revolving around gcc7. Trying to piecemeal rectify this is likely beyond my non-mastery of all things Linux/Tumbleweed, and part of the problem may relate to this being a Kubuntu machine a few years back. /home was not erased, and perhaps some lingering crud is responsible.

Short of doing a fresh install, is there some simple set of commands that would set things straight and enable me to get the offending PC up to snuff with Plasma?

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Tumbleweed should not be updated by ‘zypper up’ but

zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change

The simplest explanation is that TW is released over and over again as a distro release. See

cat /etc/os-release
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Thanks Knurpht. Going the ‘zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change’ route brings up many problems because of having done all the ‘up’ updates prior to this time.

Guess I have to bite the bullet: do a fresh install with a current snapshot on all systems, and then use ‘dup’ for all future updates.

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> Guess I have to bite the bullet: do a fresh install with a current snapshot on all systems, and then use ‘dup’ for all future updates.

you mean the no-allow-vendor-change causes lots of (too many) dialogues? [question] why not e.g. just do a straight dup, then straighten out other packages e.g. dup --from packman, then use the dup --no-allow-vendor-change for future updates?