Hello all,
is there a way to upgrade from 10.3 to 11 opensuse by download (not cd or dvd) ?

Cheers,
steve

probably not because of the reenginering of the format used in making the rpm's, 10.3 can not deal with it

Yes, try this. I've done it myself.

I tried to follow the procedure to which auxsvr directed us,
and was halted at this point:

# rpm -Uhv http://download.opensuse.org/distrib...199.1.i586.rpm
Retrieving http://download.opensuse.org/distrib...199.1.i586.rpm
error: skipping http://download.opensuse.org/distrib...199.1.i586.rpm - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error
warning: u 0x8084ef0 ctrl 0x80856b8 nrefs != 0 (download.opensuse.org http)

I could not get help from the blog to which auxsvr directed us,
because it appears to be a read-only blog, and the "Contact us"
page does not work. Hopefully auxsvr, or someone else with knowledge
of the procedure, will read this and reply.

Followup to previous post:

I tried to get around the problem of doing rpm thru http (which is,
parenthetically, supposed to work) by downloading the remote file
by hand, and then doing a local rpm, thus:

# wget http://download.opensuse.org/distrib...199.1.i586.rpm
--09:42:22-- http://download.opensuse.org/distrib...199.1.i586.rpm
=> `rpm-4.4.2-199.1.i586.rpm'
Resolving download.opensuse.org... 195.135.221.134, 2001:67c:2178:8::13
Connecting to download.opensuse.org|195.135.221.134|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/dis...199.1.i586.rpm [following]
--09:42:23-- http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/dis...199.1.i586.rpm
=> `rpm-4.4.2-199.1.i586.rpm'
Resolving ftp5.gwdg.de... 134.76.12.5, 2001:638:60f:110::1:1
Connecting to ftp5.gwdg.de|134.76.12.5|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1,508,921 (1.4M) [application/x-rpm]

100%[==============================================================================>] 1,508,921 69.38K/s ETA 00:00

09:42:54 (48.93 KB/s) - `rpm-4.4.2-199.1.i586.rpm' saved [1508921/1508921]

# rpm -Uvh rpm-4.4.2-199.1.i586.rpm && rm rpm-4.4.2-199.1.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
rpm = 4.1.1 is needed by (installed) rpm-devel-4.1.1-222.i586



So, apparently I have to upgrade rpm-devel also. Behold:


# wget http://download.opensuse.org/distrib...199.1.i586.rpm
--09:43:51-- http://download.opensuse.org/distrib...199.1.i586.rpm
=> `rpm-devel-4.4.2-199.1.i586.rpm'
Resolving download.opensuse.org... 195.135.221.134, 2001:67c:2178:8::13
Connecting to download.opensuse.org|195.135.221.134|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/dis...199.1.i586.rpm [following]
--09:43:52-- http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/dis...199.1.i586.rpm
=> `rpm-devel-4.4.2-199.1.i586.rpm'
Resolving ftp5.gwdg.de... 134.76.12.5, 2001:638:60f:110::1:1
Connecting to ftp5.gwdg.de|134.76.12.5|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1,736,410 (1.7M) [application/x-rpm]

100%[==============================================================================>] 1,736,410 52.61K/s ETA 00:00

09:44:34 (41.11 KB/s) - `rpm-devel-4.4.2-199.1.i586.rpm' saved [1736410/1736410]

# rpm -Uvh rpm*.rpm && rm rpm*.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
lzma-alpha-devel is needed by rpm-devel-4.4.2-199.1.i586


A lesser man would be discouraged, but not I. I see now that I must
also download and install lzma-alpha-devel. Since the true home of
these packages appears to be ftp5.gwdg.de, my next wget goes directly there:



# wget http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/dis...-20.1.i586.rpm
--09:47:16-- http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/dis...-20.1.i586.rpm
=> `lzma-alpha-devel-4.42.3alpha-20.1.i586.rpm'
Resolving ftp5.gwdg.de... 134.76.12.5, 2001:638:60f:110::1:1
Connecting to ftp5.gwdg.de|134.76.12.5|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 122,540 (120K) [application/x-rpm]

100%[==============================================================================>] 122,540 39.38K/s ETA 00:00

09:47:19 (39.31 KB/s) - `lzma-alpha-devel-4.42.3alpha-20.1.i586.rpm' saved [122540/122540]

# rpm -Uvh rpm*.rpm lzma-alpha-devel-4.42.3alpha-20.1.i586.rpm && rm rpm*.rpm lzma-alpha-devel-4.42.3alpha-20.1.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) <= 4.4.2-1 is needed by lzma-alpha-devel-4.42.3alpha-20.1.i586



There is no package named "rpmlib" in http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/dis...oss/suse/i586/

So, what the devil do I do now? Thank you in advance for any and all replies.


Jay F. Shachter
jay at m5 dot chicago dot il dot us
+1 410 9964737 GoogleVoice
+1 773 7613784 landline
JayShachter on Skype
FedyaDolohov on AIM

please do not bring up a 4 year old thread from 2008

the only OpenSUSE 11 that is still supported is 11.4
and that hits it's END OF LIFE IN 43 DAYS

please stay current
and install the NOW current OpenSUSE 12.2