OpenSUSE 10.1, yast and installing an update

[Technomage]

did you make sure in the installed sources dialog to check that both refresh 
and activate are enabled?

without thouse, it won't show your sources properly on a search.

I use 10.1 here and have all the MM sources added.


On Saturday 10 June 2006 08:37, Alan Dayley wrote:
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> First, a confession:  Over the memorial day weekend I updated my main
> computer from Fedora Core 3 to OpenSUSE 10.1.  Yes, after several years
> I left the Red Hat fold here on this computer.  And, compared to FC 5 on
> my kids' computer, OpenSUSE is much cleaner and polished.  There, I said
> it.
>
> BUT, yast is driving me nuts.  It's s-l-o-w.  But more importantly I
> don't understand how to make it do what I want.
>
> OpenSUSE came with amaroK 1.3, a very nice music player with a
> significant bug.  If you have an iPod, amaroK 1.3 will truncate your
> song database to 256 songs.  The songs are still there, you just can't
> get to any beyond the first 256.
>
> Well, version 1.4 has been released and includes a fix for this bug.
> Cool!  I want to update amaroK.
>
> - - I open the YaST Control Center and click "Software->Installation
> Source" - - After a long time (less than a minute but it seems long), my
> installed sources (ie. repositories) come up.
> - - I click "Add->Specify URL"
> - - I enter the URL for the Guru repository
> (http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.1/) because it is
> an apparently respected repository and it has amaroK 1.4 available.
> - - Making sure the Guru repository is enabled and set to refresh, I click
> "Finish" and wait for a long time again.
> - - Eventually the sources application stops doing whatever, several
> minutes of whatever, and closes.
> - - I type "amarok" in the search box.
> - - It shows the application and some other packages with amarok in the
> name.  In the "Avail. Ver." column there is... nothing (huh?) and the
> "Inst. Ver." column shows my current version, 1.3.xxx.
> - - I click the checked box icon to the left of the amarok package.  It
> will only change to a garbage can or back to a check box.
>
> How do I:
> - - Make it see the 1.4 version?
> - - Make it update to that version?
>
> I must be missing a step here because it shouldn't be this hard.
>
> Alan
>
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