OpenSuse apt-get upgrade SUPER
 

Ok so I hosed my OpenSUSE system today. Looking through the docs using the SUPER rpms seemed like a good idea. NOT.

Every package that I upgrade broke. Apps I use all the time like Gaim and Firefox wouldn't even start.

So I am back to square one. The only way I see to fix things is to do a reinstall.

I tried uninstalling the reinstalling packages using YAST/You but it didn't seem to fix the problems. Gaim still wouldn't start and Firefox crashed if I clicked on any button.

I have the Beta1 cds, so my options are reinstall then upgrade(the upgrade to beta2 took 2 hours), download the beta3 cds and reinstall using them.

Also found out using prelink on a slow system like my laptop with a P3 750 and 256MB ram is a bad idea. After every time I installed anything it took almost an hour to run.

Ah the fun of playing with betas, especially messing with a beta project lik SUPER while testing a beta. :) God I love Linux.

How about using Automatic repair? It usually searches for missing packages and helps restore broken system.

Just what I needed to hear.
NOT.

After a less than inspiring intro to Suse with 9.2 a couple of months back, I was just tonight looking at downloading OpenSuse.

Damn.

Perhaps stable version is better in this case. 9.3 Pro instead of open 10 betas. Run it on Laptop. Fantastic!
Shot of 9.3 on Laptop IBM

Nah - Gotta be Open or nothing.
I'll trash my Solaris build and whack it on there to try it out.

Tried the repair no go.

The beta is/was not the problem it was trying to use APT along with the SUPER rpms that broke things.

The beta worked just fine. I had originally installed Beta1 then used the System Upgrade to upgrade to beta2 then beta3. All without any problems.

I didn't really notice any bugs. At least not until I screwed things up.

In the end....
 

... that's what Betas are for.