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: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFEiudXDQw/VSQuFZYRAqTMAJ4mTWAeJhoS/zI7gskRRuZoQwp3IgCfToRi > Xpi1SddjoPwi1D/yiFiYXgs= > =SY1I > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss