I have a question, when I have booted lately, got network connection back I got a notice of upgrades.Even if I have just rebooted after a zypper dup. When I click on it the large Apper window shows up and I get confused (my laptop DE does not act like this). Lets see about Apper,
-total DL size 396.4MB
-among others packages want to install KDE update to 14.12.1 (KDE 4.14.5 installed)
Does not Apper using the same base/info as Zypper? Well It can be my fault that I have a lock on DigiKam 4.4.0 in YaST2/software. Or do I have managed to made a mess again:. No I don’t use Apper normally and I don’t suffer from above. Just curious…
You are comparing apples and oranges. appr is showing updates zypper dup is showing upgrade. zypper up is closer to what appr does. zypper dup should only be used to change distribution versions not to do upgrades (unless you are running tumbleweed and if you are you should under stand this stuff)
You probably have package groups that are installed from two or more repos thus have a version numbering problem.
Without seeing what repos you have it is hard to say. It is best to stick with a mimum number of repos and be sure when install complex apps that all parts come from the same repos (vendor)
[QUOTE=gogalthorp;2700290]You are comparing apples and oranges. appr is showing updates zypper dup is showing upgrade. zypper up is closer to what appr does. zypper dup should only be used to change distribution versions not to do upgrades (unless you are running tumbleweed and if you are you should under stand this stuff)/QUOTE]
Interesting. Zypper Dup and Zypper up shows (almost) the same thing:
zypper dup
Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you continue. See 'man zypper' for more information about this command.
Retrieving repository 'Packman Repository' metadata ......................[done]
Building repository 'Packman Repository' cache ...........................[done]
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Computing distribution upgrade...
The following 50 packages are going to be upgraded:
backintime backintime-kde chromium chromium-desktop-kde chromium-ffmpeg
ffmpeg flash-player flash-player-kde4 gmplayer h264enc java-1_8_0-openjdk
java-1_8_0-openjdk-headless kcm-touchpad konversation libass5 libavcodec56
libavdevice56 libavfilter5 libavformat56 libavresample2 libavutil54
libmediawiki1 libmysqlclient18 libmysqlclient-devel libmysqlclient_r18
libmysqld18 libopencv2_4 libpostproc53 libstreamanalyzer0 libswresample1
libswscale3 libvlc5 libvlccore8 mariadb mariadb-client mariadb-errormessages
MPlayer mpv ntp opencv opencv-devel python3-setuptools smplayer-skins sudo
vlc vlc-codecs vlc-noX vlc-noX-lang vlc-qt youtube-dl
50 packages to upgrade.
Overall download size: 137.0 MiB. Already cached: 0 B After the operation,
additional 4.6 MiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/? shows all options] (y): n
jodotpc:/home/jodot # zypper up
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
The following 6 package updates will NOT be installed:
digikam kipi-plugins kipi-plugins-acquireimage kipi-plugins-geolocation
kipi-plugins-lang libkgeomap-lang
The following 50 packages are going to be upgraded:
backintime backintime-kde chromium chromium-desktop-kde chromium-ffmpeg
ffmpeg flash-player flash-player-kde4 gmplayer h264enc java-1_8_0-openjdk
java-1_8_0-openjdk-headless kcm-touchpad konversation libass5 libavcodec56
libavdevice56 libavfilter5 libavformat56 libavresample2 libavutil54
libmediawiki1 libmysqlclient18 libmysqlclient-devel libmysqlclient_r18
libmysqld18 libopencv2_4 libpostproc53 libstreamanalyzer0 libswresample1
libswscale3 libvlc5 libvlccore8 mariadb mariadb-client mariadb-errormessages
MPlayer mpv ntp opencv opencv-devel python3-setuptools smplayer-skins sudo
vlc vlc-codecs vlc-noX vlc-noX-lang vlc-qt youtube-dl
50 packages to upgrade.
Overall download size: 137.0 MiB. Already cached: 0 B After the operation,
additional 4.6 MiB will be used.
Zypper shows the amount of Dl data to 137MB.
Lets see from the orginal post, -396,4MB in Apper including a older KDE version (of 259.4MB) when a newer versions is already installed gives… 137.0 MB witch is what Zypper xxx’s says.
As the conflict as acually caused by a “patch” from the update repo, so you should try “zypper patch” instead.
The problem is probably that you installed digikam (or some subpackages) from KDE:Extra though.
“zypper patch” should allow you to resolve that conflict, or if you use digikam from KDE:Extra you could just “taboo” the patch in YaST->Online Update (note: the patch on the left side, not the package(s) on the right side)