This might help some people who want to update and not sure how to, it worked for me without much problems.
first a list of my repo’s in 11.2, please note that you probably have others and this is surly no defetive list or anything, just how it was on my system.
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh
---+-------------------------------------+----------------------------------+---------+--------
1 | OpenSUSE_Security | openSUSE-11.2-Security | Yes | Yes
2 | Packman_Repository | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes
3 | download.nvidia.com-opensuse | NVIDIA Repository | Yes | Yes
4 | http-download.opensuse.org-90b8e136 | openSUSE-11.2-Updates | Yes | Yes
5 | openSUSE-11.2-KDE:_Extra_1 | openSUSE-11.2-KDE: Extra | Yes | Yes
6 | openSUSE-11.2-KDE:_UpdatedApps | openSUSE-11.2-KDE: UpdatedApps | Yes | Yes
7 | openSUSE-11.2-Wine_CVS_Builds | openSUSE-11.2-Wine CVS Builds | Yes | Yes
8 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.2-Debug | Yes | Yes
9 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes
10 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Oss | Yes | Yes
I then simply used Yast > Software repositories and changed all the repo’s in both Name and URL from 11.2 to 11.3 and I added the new KDE 4.5 repo as posted on the SUSE news page (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/45/openSUSE_11.3/):
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh
---+-------------------------------------+----------------------------------+---------+--------
1 | OpenSUSE_Security | openSUSE-11.3-Security | Yes | Yes
2 | Packman_Repository | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes
3 | download.nvidia.com-opensuse | NVIDIA Repository | Yes | Yes
4 | http-download.opensuse.org-90b8e136 | openSUSE-11.3-Updates | Yes | Yes
5 | openSUSE-11.3-KDE:_Extra_1 | openSUSE-11.3-KDE: Extra | Yes | Yes
6 | openSUSE-11.3-KDE:_UpdatedApps | openSUSE-11.3-KDE: UpdatedApps | Yes | Yes
7 | openSUSE-11.3-Wine_CVS_Builds | openSUSE-11.3-Wine CVS Builds | Yes | Yes
8 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.3-Debug | Yes | Yes
9 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.3-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes
10 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.3-Oss | Yes | Yes
11 | openSUSE-11.3-KDE:_4.5 | openSUSE-11.3-KDE: 4.5 | Yes | Yes
After this I opened a command line, changed to root (su) and did a zypper dup. It checked all the repositories and eventually came with a message that around 1400 programs needed to be installed, updated, moved etc. etc.
The update itself went smooth except at a certain point it wanted to install realcrypt, probably because I had truecrypt installed, this failed and I just hit the i for ignore.
Once it was done, took about an hour I think I did a reboot and ended up in a new running 11.3 with KDE 4.5.
I then started a little cleanup using yast software manager since there where some things I wanted to change and there where some leftovers from 11.2
- removed: xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau
- removed: realcrypt
- installed: nvidia-gfxG02-kpm-desktop
Still in yast software manager I selected @system on the left and delete all programs that had their version in red and nothing in ( ) behind it, they all came from the 11.2 and seemed no longer valid for 11.3. Of course things I installed myself where also in red but I left those.
Next moved to Yast boot Loader and removed the 2 entries (normal and safemode) that where still left from 11.2
And finally moved to Yast /etc/sysconfig editor, there I set System, Kernel, NO_KMS_IN_INTRD to yes. this solved lots of issues for me when trying the release candidates and nvidia drivers. Not sure its needed anymore but did not harm.
A reboot later and all was running as expected.
-Xil
