Re: OpenSUSE 10.1, yast and installing an update

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Author: Technomage
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: OpenSUSE 10.1, yast and installing an update
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:
>
> 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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