YAST Online update problem

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Hi

I appear to be unable to select individual updates for installation anymore from the Yast Online update screen. I use this to install updates manually on 11.1. But everytime I think I’ve chosen an update to install, all the updates listed get installed, and not just the one I’ve chosen. For example I just chose a “Fuse security update” to install and clicked the “Install” button. Nothing further happens until I click “Apply”. Then all patches listed under the “All available” listing get applied. How do I just apply the patches that I want to ?

Any ideas ?

Thanks

David

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You could try via zypper

zypper up -t patch

For packages, then do

zypper up -t package

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I’ll have a look at zypper. But it would be better if I could figure out how to make my Online updates work so that I can select individual updates again. I know that they used to in the past. And I’m more at home with the gui interface than I am with the command line

Thanks

David

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since you say “I appear to be unable to select individual updates for
installation anymore” i can assume it used to work so one of two
things has happened: either you (or someone) accidentally damaged YaST
Online Updates (YOU) or something when wrong somewhere, somehow…

so, to fix it you could try to use zypper to remove/reinstall YaST…

i don’t know exactly the zypper commands to do that (i almost always
use YaST myself), but i bet you can figure it out if you use any of these:

-man zypper (in a terminal)
-info zypper (also in a terminal)
-the forums advanced search <http://forums.opensuse.org/search.php>
-http://tinyurl.com/ybklh48
-http://opensuse-tutorials.com/category/zypper/

and, i’d make sure YaST and YOU were not busy and turned off
first…while that may not be actually required i can’t see how it
would hurt…

when you finish you might have a fully functional YaST/YOU again…

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David: I would like to know: did you resolve this? How did you solve it?

Regards;
Hiero2