On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, John wrote: > > I made the mistake of upgrading to openSUSE 10.2 and now I'm regretting > it big time. Mplayer was uninstalled by the upgrade, and none of my > multimedia apps work cause of file format patents, from what I can tell > by the big warning about patents on a Novell web page. I never saw or > heard a peep out of Novell about patents before this Microsoft "deal". I > think Novell got shafted by Microsoft. Time will tell, especially if MS > ends up acquiring Red Hat (heaven forbid the financial experts are wrong). > > Why in the heck did openSUSE 10.2 have to remove a perfectly functioning > Mplayer and leave me with a broken Kaffeine (which worked great before) > and broken Noatun and broken XMMS, etc. I can't play any video formats > now or burn any CDs. This is really pitiful.
Because you did not add the repo. It is your mistake. I did upgrades to 3 10.0 and 8 10.1 systems. All I had to do was have all the additional repos and everything was upgraded. I had downloaded everything from the ftp. So my install had the following. 198.60.105.2/local/suse/suse/i386/10.2/repo/oss 198.60.105.2/local/suse/suse/i386/10.2/repo/non-oss 198.60.105.2/local/suse/suse/i386/10.2/repo/src-oss 198.60.105.2/local/suse/suse/i386/10.2/repo/src-non-oss 198.60.105.2/local/suse/suse/i386/10.2/repo/packman 198.60.105.2/local/suse/suse/i386/10.2/repo/guru 198.60.105.2/local/suse/suse/i386/upgrade/10.2 You have to all all repo's you used like guru or packmam. The packman above was a ftp from packman.unixheads.com/pub/suse/10.2 You have to add all the repo's to get a complete upraded. You would need a similar to install fresh you 10.0 or 10.1. If you do not have all your installation sources then they may be deleted. > I'm really disgusted with what this upgrade has done. And why so many > file updating programs? There's Yast, Yum, Smart, openSUSE Update, > Synaptic, and a few more I can't remember at the moment. How in the > world is a Windows user ever gonna convert and deal with so many > choices? The strangest thing of all is how the documentation compares > Smart to Yast and Yum and shows how superior it is to both. Then why > include Yast and Yum anymore? Just provide Smart package manager and be > done with it. Package management in Linux leaves a lot to be desired, > compared to Windows Add/Remove Program and Setup programs. Your own fault because you did not have all repo's needed. -- Boyd Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
