On Tuesday 10 July 2007 10:53, Donald D Henson wrote: > Another piece of the puzzle. I discovered an applet, opensuseupdater, > that appears to work. At least it found and installed an update. Is this > part of the total system? > > Donald D. Henson, Managing Director > West El Paso Information Network > The "Non-Initiation of Force Principle" Rules > > Donald D Henson wrote: > > There are two icons in my toolbar, Install Software and Update Software. > > These icons are apparently related to Novell Zenworks and something > > called Rug, neither of which I understand. I can find very little "how > > to" info on either. What technical info I can find tends to be arguments > > about whether Zenworks/Rug is a step forward or a step backward. Under > > the circumstances, I think my confusion is reasonable. > > > > Would anyone out there care to give me a quick synopsis of Zenworks/Rug > > and some simple rules on how to use them? A Zenworks/Rug for Dummies > > online article would also be helpful. > > > > Thanks.
The shortest advice for Zenworks/Rug is remove them from your system and use YaST, zypper and opensuseupdater. The Zenworks/Rug is somewhat bad solution for openSUSE as it is meant for automatic updates from carefully maintained repository, like in enterprises, where any update is already tested to work with current system, before being provided trough repository. In openSUSE case carefully tested is only update repository that is covered with opensuseupdater. The rest of official openSUSE repositories is static, they do not change after they are published. That is not always the case with additional (unofficial) repositories that can be used, but with some experience in handling packages from those repositories in case that YaST reports dependency problems, IMHO they are not meant for automatic updates, nor for inexperienced users. See also: http://en.opensuse.org/yast http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_Updater_Applet and of course -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
