Pardon my ignorance.
I’m thinking of switching to Tumbleweed and have one question. Does it upgrade Kde (and other desktops) too? For example If it (Kde) was to go from 5 to 6 someday would I automatically get that or would I manually have to upgrade it myself somehow?
Tumbleweed re. KDE follows upstream. So, it will move to 6 when it’s released,. Just stick to
zypper dup
and don’t use any other commands / apps to update,
I see this quite frequently, but not sure if I understand why tho? Dup is ignoring vendor/repo choice and pulls recommends as well. Could you explain/point me to a direction why dup is recommended on TW?
Yep. First, --no-allow-vendor-change is default on TW, since last summer. Second, dup is needed due to how TW updates: it’s released over and over again, so you don’t update just some packages, but you move to the next released snapshot. Zypper up will ignore downgrades ( which do happen once in a while ) or replacement of one package by another. This breaks things ( as we’ve seen in numerous posts in these forums and on the MLs. So, dup is not ignoring vendor changes made by the admin of a system. One can also use the --no-recommends option or make that the default in zypper.conf.
One very recently in fact… 20171205 “docbook-xsl-stylesheets”, not one that would completely break the system, but a downgrade nonetheless.
or make that the default in zypper.conf.
Unless “installRecommends = yes” has been uncommented in “zypper.conf” then zypper follows zypp.conf (solver.onlyRequires). So you probably would want to change it there ("/etc/zypp/zypp.conf").
set “solver.onlyRequires = true”
Don’t use Yast online updater?
No, not for TW.
Right, makes sense. Big thanks for the explanation!