Is there a thread or guide that suggests which repositories to select? I am a bit confused on what BuildService repositories are and which ones to use. I have a LAMP so do I need the php and database ones?
I also see that I have added specific repositories like: Index of /virtualbox/rpm/opensuse/11.3/
for specific programs. However the BuildService has a repository for VirtualBox also.
I also notice that the software update does not up date some of the applications. I have to go into install/remove and look at the status box to see what is upgradeable. Is this the correct process for this?
I suppose if I was going to request any change at all for openSuse it would be to combine the repositories to a smaller more concise grouping.
This one is not working from the recommended Multi-media Guide. Am I missing something here? I do notice I have libdvdcss 1.2.10-7.10 installed. http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/11.3/
One should not choose repositories in advance, meaning: unless you don’t miss them, you won’t need them. Beside that (and the “oss-nonoss-update-Packman-rule”), there can not be a generic guide how to set up repos; if you have an NVidia, you’ll probably want the NVidia-driver, so you should add the NVidia-repo - but the openSUSE-team can not give much support on that, since these drivers are proprietary and not in the control of the team. It’s your choice. ‘home:’-repos can be set up by anyone, and many do not feel the need to care for their packages as the openSUSE-team does, some of them are okay to use - in general one should be extra careful with them (by researching the packagers reputation, asking in forums etc.). I personally am pretty happy with the Mozilla-repo, but they also are not officially supported.
As I said: there’s no generic guide for that. What repos are you fiddling with?
update is needed, Virtualbox has no alternative, Emulators:Wine can at least not risk much of your system, reddwarf: never used it - but there’s something about KDE:UpdatedApps that catched my attention; while the 11.2-repo of this source seems to be updated regularly, the 11.3-repo was updated almost a month ago for the last time. I myself thought it was completely dead, so maybe someone could give us some info on that. Which version of KDE do you use?
kde4-config --version
By the way: priorities and the exact URL are important too, so you should rather give us the output of
Thank you very much for all the info provided from all three of you. I learned a lot here! The script mmcheck also helped to clean up some of the mess I made.
When 11.4 comes out I will probably do a fresh install hopefully keeping my /home partition intact. An hour of rebuild will probably be better then messing with an upgrade.
I also occasionally enable this ‘wine’ repos, but a word of caution about it.
The version of ‘wine’ packaged on that repos is pretty cutting edge, and it will break your MS-Windows apps running under wine at times for various updates, and it may take many new wine releases before it is fixed again.
I use wine for ‘autostitch’ (a panormic photo stitching program) and it is rarely impacted negatively by wine updates. However I also use wine for the MS-Windows program VirtualDub with the deshaker plugin, and I’ve had wine updates break that on a couple occasions. In fact, a wine update in October broke it, and I had to roll back to the wine version that comes with openSUSE to get VirtualDub to work properly again. I have not tried the latest wine version since.
So a word of caution. If you don’t know how to easily roll back, then IMHO you should give the use of this wine repos second thought.
