I am new to OpenSUSE. I have installed 13.1 RC1 on my Toshiba laptop and it’s running with small glitches (in YaST, for instance) but no serious problems. It seems very good and stable, and I am thinking of switching to OpenSUSE for good from the Ubuntu family. Will I have to download and install RC2 or will the system update take care of it? Also, will I have to download and install the final version on 19th, or will an upgrade do the trick?
Thanks in advance.
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As 13.1 is not released, all questions should go into the Pre-Release/Beta forum.
There you will meet your fellow testers.
This is CLOSED and will be moved.
I would wait for the openSUSE 13.1 final right now and go with it from RC1 I think.
Thank You,
Moved from Install/Boot/Login and open again.
I added the RC2 iso to the yast repositorys (via local iso) but the system shows no available updates. All package version numbers are the same between RC2 and RC1 - how can that be?
Perhaps RC1 are identical with RC2. Or you have installed RC1 and updated more times. So RC1 + updates=RC2.
On 10/31/2013 03:06 PM, tomtomme pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> I added the RC2 iso to the yast repositorys (via local iso) but the
> system shows no available updates. All package version numbers are the
> same between RC2 and RC1 - how can that be?
Go into YaST/Software and select the repo for RC2 and then click near
the top where you can switches to this repo.
yeah some updates landed yesterday via zypper dup. I did not check from which repo. but that were only 20 packages or so. Wouldn´t RC2 constist of more updates?
On 10/31/2013 02:26 PM, Oscar2007 wrote:
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> tomtomme;2594744 Wrote:
>> I added the RC2 iso to the yast repositorys (via local iso) but the
>> system shows no available updates. All package version numbers are the
>> same between RC2 and RC1 - how can that be?
>
> Perhaps RC1 are identical with RC2. Or you have installed RC1 and
> updated more times. So RC1 + updates=RC2.
I had done regular “zypper up” to RC1. When the RC2 announcement came out, I did
the usual “zypper dup” and got 3 packages changed. Obviously, we are getting
rolling updates.
weird I tried adding the ISO and it says
File '---/openSUSE-13.1-DVD-Build0084-x86_64.iso'
does not seem to be an ISO image.
Use it anyway?
but the SHA1 is verified.
On 10/31/2013 02:36 PM, tomtomme wrote:
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> Oscar2007;2594747 Wrote:
>> Perhaps RC1 are identical with RC2. Or you have installed RC1 and
>> updated more times. So RC1 + updates=RC2.
>
> yeah some updates landed yesterday via zypper dup. I did not check from
> which repo. but that were only 20 packages or so. Wouldn´t RC2 constist
> of more updates?
Zypper’s history shows the following:
RC1 installed 10/14
10/18 1 update
10/19 1 update
10/21 5 updates
10/23 283 updates
10/28 99 updates
10/29 67 updates
10/31 4 updates
RC1 => RC2 consists of all of those. Except for 10/23 and 10/28, they just
trickled in.
And if already running openSUSE 12.3, you can put any version of the openSUSE 13.1 ISO on a USB thumb drive, including any Live version. Have a look at the following bash script:
S.C.L.U. - SuSE Create Live USB - Version 1.00 - Blogs - openSUSE ForumsThis terminal command will get and run SCLU. When run first you need to be online to get added packages:
rm ~/bin/sclu ; wget -nc http://paste.opensuse.org/view/download/85914606 -O ~/bin/sclu ; chmod +x ~/bin/sclu ; sclu
Just download any openSUSE 13.1 iso to your $HOME/Downloads folder, select Local for iso location and use SCLU to place on your USB thumb drive. Test tonight and do not mess up your installed openSUSU copy with a KDE or GNOME LiveUSB.
openSUSE 13.1 GNOME Live 32 bit ISO: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1-RC2/iso/openSUSE-13.1-GNOME-Live-Build0084-i686.iso
openSUSE 13.1 GNOME Live 64 bit ISO: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1-RC2/iso/openSUSE-13.1-GNOME-Live-Build0084-x86_64.iso
openSUSE 13.1 KDE Live 32 bit ISO: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1-RC2/iso/openSUSE-13.1-KDE-Live-Build0084-i686.iso
openSUSE 13.1 KDE Live 64 bit ISO: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1-RC2/iso/openSUSE-13.1-KDE-Live-Build0084-x86_64.iso
It should be easy to test openSUSE 13.1 and this can help.
Thank You,
On 2013-10-31 20:06, tomtomme wrote:
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> I added the RC2 iso to the yast repositorys (via local iso) but the
> system shows no available updates. All package version numbers are the
> same between RC2 and RC1 - how can that be?
You have to force reffresh of the DVD repo metadata, by default it doesn’t.
Have you tried “zypper dup”?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)