Updating Tumbleweed on aarch64

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Hello,

I successfully installed Tumbleweed aarch64 on a VM on MacOS wirth Apple silicon. Very pleased with the performance.

The version I currently have is :

(base) rrpalma@vm02opensuse:~> cat /usr/lib/os-release 
NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed" 
# VERSION="20211008" 
ID="opensuse-tumbleweed" 
ID_LIKE="opensuse suse" 
VERSION_ID="20211008" 
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed" 
ANSI_COLOR="0;32" 
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20211008" 
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org" 
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/" 
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed" 
LOGO="distributor-logo-Tumbleweed"

Release 20211012 is already out, but I can’t seem to be able to upgrade:

**vm02opensuse:~ #** zypper ref 
Repository 'Main Repository (OSS)' is up to date.                                                                                              
Repository 'Main Update Repository' is up to date.                                                                                             
Repository 'Packman' is up to date.                                                                                                            
All repositories have been refreshed. 
**vm02opensuse:~ #** zypper dup 
Loading repository data... 
Reading installed packages... 
Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you cont
inue. See 'man zypper' for more information about this command. 
Computing distribution upgrade... 
Nothing to do.

My repositories:

**vm02opensuse:~ #** zypper lr -EU 
Repository priorities in effect:                                                                              (See 'zypper lr -P' for details) 
      90 (raised priority)  :  1 repository 
      99 (default priority) :  2 repositories 

# | Alias                            | Name                   | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | URI 
--+----------------------------------+------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+-----------------------------------------------
---------------------- 
1 | download.opensuse.org-oss        | Main Repository (OSS)  | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/ports/aarch64/tum
bleweed/repo/oss/ 
2 | download.opensuse.org-tumbleweed | Main Update Repository | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/ports/aarch64/upd
ate/tumbleweed/ 
4 | packman                          | Packman                | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/sus
e/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/

What could be the problem?

Thanks for reading!

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Hi
Nothing wrong, you have the latest aarch64 snapshot 20211008… it tracks a bit behind the x86_64 snapshot. When a new snapshot is released you will see a notification in the Forum (It’s automatic from the ARM Factory Mailing List).

3

Thank you VERY MUCH for your reply. I thought that might be a possibility, but was still racking my brains about the (nonexisting) problem. Learned a lot in the way :slight_smile:

Thanks again.

4

Hi
Your welcome :slight_smile: You might want to also keep an eye on the Mailing List for issues as well: openSUSE ARM - openSUSE Mailing Lists

5

will the AARCH version work for all ARM chips or only a select few. I have an old rooted android phone. Can i install opensuse arm on it?

Thanks :slight_smile:

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You can always try, but I doubt that it will work. Compatibility with a platform entails much more than cpu commonality.