On Wednesday 17 October 2007 04:18:05 pm Stan Goodman wrote: > Aha! Then I should run <zypper ref> again and hope that it will do that. On > the other hand, it just sat there inertly before, and I don't see a reason > why it should be different next time. zypper ref is short of zypper refresh It will download and refresh software repository metadata, not software packages itself.
To update system with patches zypper update but first you have to get rid of all repositories that doesn't work, which can be problem as 10.2 want to refresh metadata, in any case, even if you want to remove some of repositories. That is one of bugs, solved with patches. ... > > To install openSUSE 10.3 the best way is to use: > > http://software.opensuse.org/ > > Are you telling me to update the whole system to 10.3? Do I need this? It is better and faster than 10.2. Everyone likes that. > From > what I have seen (not only now, but when I first installed 10.2 a few > months ago), these repositories are exceedingly slow. Making a DVD proved > to be unfeasible because of the slowness, even with various mirrors, so I > fell back on making a set of CDs. I do NOT want to start an operation that > will take days to complete, if indeed it doesn't drop out in the middle and > leave me with an unusable system. With openSUSE 10.3 you need one CD (KDE or GNOME) to install graphical base system. After that you can install more programs using YaST or zypper. The only problem is that if you add online repositories than installation program will try to use them, and that means very long download. So workaround would be to install CD without online repositories and when installation is done go to YaST and add them. They are listed in YaST Comunity Repositories. If there will be any problems just ask. Console program 'wget -c <url>' is solution for long downloads. It will continue download when you restart it. The simple way is to create directory for iso files, change to that directory and start wget. When you want to stop than Ctrl-c, and next time you want to continue download cd to directory where is partial download and start 'wget -c <url>' and it will continue. See 'man wget' for details. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
