Software updating not possible with my SUSE 10.1 system.

DeekBeek · 07-31-2006, 01:33 PM

I have been all around this forum looking at the how-to's and to various web-site how-to's, and none of them work. I can't get Yast installation source to accept a YUM url, by pressing the finish button, and then move to Yast Online Update and enter it two times, to list that first libzypp update. Yast Installation Source just hangs forever on the finish button, and will not close (which means I then cannot open Yast Online Update, because it will shut down anyway with a message that another process is interfering). I can't use zen-updater, it just crashes when I try to get that first libzypp patch in. Although I had smart --gui up and working, I could not get it to display update material (I press hide non-upgrades under th view menu, and everything disappears). I even re-installed Linux and tried these same things before installing any extras (such as the nVidia driver); no luck.
Can someone post the URL for a SUSE trusted rpm package solution to this updating fiasco? This is an extremely bad problem on my system, I have spent days on it without resolving anything (does having an x_86_64 system single me out for more trouble?). Extremely bad form, SUSE, you should already have a patch CD out for this crater in your 10.1 distribution.

onjoo · 07-31-2006, 02:37 PM

Have you ever used the ENTER key? I know that some of these keyboard buttons are a bit hard to locate, especially the ANYKEY button

, but the enter key hmmm...

Ok, to the topic...

Main ftp for updates is here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/
+ i586
+ i686
+ noarch
+ ppc
+ ppc64
+ src
+ x86_64

You can wget the packages ( wget ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/i586/*.rpm)
or install with rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/i586/*.rpm

DeekBeek · 07-31-2006, 06:54 PM

Yast Installation source will not close using the enter key instead of positioning the pointer over the finish button and pressing the left mouse button. Twins in failure. I have to shut it down with Ctrl-Alt-Esc key combo (avast, the crossbones); the window just freezes and won't close (or am I supposed to wait all night?).
I have already gotten plenty of international mirrors to list in zen-updater, the app. just crashes when I try to install anything. I'm trying getting a libzypp .rpm with prozgui, presently, from a site you gave (but I won't be sniffing around i586 directories, I have an AMD64). I can't find an appropriate smilie fro this (will they ever put in that hidden head you have to shoot to end Doom 2? That would suit).

fogcat · 07-31-2006, 07:37 PM

Not trying to jump in,,,, I have exactly the saame probs here.
I have found some info through the wiki for SuSE links, however;
this system is starting to act stangely as in firefox will no longer launch and now Kinternet (yes Ii use dial) also is a malfunction. The lockups have caused many other problems. I do not want to take the time to traccck down such widespread problems when I can still just boot into my 10.0 (using it here).

If there are any usable solutions to this disaster, please let us know. I AM a SuSE user and wish to stay so with up-to-date functionality.

Thanks all,

Dan Mac

onjoo · 08-01-2006, 02:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DeekBeek

Yast Installation source will not close using the enter key instead of positioning the pointer over the finish button and pressing the left mouse button. Twins in failure. I have to shut it down with Ctrl-Alt-Esc key combo (avast, the crossbones); the window just freezes and won't close (or am I supposed to wait all night?).

I have already gotten plenty of international mirrors to list in zen-updater, the app. just crashes when I try to install anything. I'm trying getting a libzypp .rpm with prozgui, presently, from a site you gave (but I won't be sniffing around i586 directories, I have an AMD64).

I can't find an appropriate smilie fro this (will they ever put in that hidden head you have to shoot to end Doom 2? That would suit).

With the enter key I meant the way you post your text. Hitting the enter key once or twice helps the reading process...

If the manual wget/rpm isn't working , the basic solution to your problems is to unistall smart package and install them from Gurus repository with added repositories. Thats the easyest way to update the package manager family (ZEN/libzypp/rug/ZMD/YAST).

Download the 4 rpms to some directory with this guide:
1) open terminal/konsole
2) make a new directory

Code:

mkdir rpms

3) change directory

Code:

cd rpms

4) wget the packages:

Code:

wget http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/packages/System/smart/smart-0.42-3.guru.suse101.x86_64.rpm
wget http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/packages/System/smart/smart-addons-0.42-3.guru.suse101.x86_64.rpm
wget http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/packages/System/smart/smart-gui-0.42-3.guru.suse101.x86_64.rpm
wget http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/packages/System/smart/smart-ksmarttray-0.42-3.guru.suse101.x86_64.rpm

5) install the packages with ROOT

Code:

su

-type your password and install manually with RPM

Code:

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

6)Run SuSeConfig

Code:

SuSEconfig

7) Use smart and update!!

DeekBeek · 08-01-2006, 06:39 AM

I attempted obtaining and installing what I considered to be the one essential .rpm from an approved suse source you provided yesterday (ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/). The .rpm I downloaded with prozgui is called libzypp-1.1.0-1.11.x86_64.patch.rpm.

I then tried installing that with zen-updater, after somehow getting it to list as selected individually. The installation began, but it then quit with an unknown error.
I then tried BASH (the console or terminal if you prefer) and used:

Code:

rpm -i libzypp-1.1.0-1.11.x86_64.patch.rpm

Which then spit back the error message:

Code:

error: Failed dependencies:
        rpmlib(PatchRPMs) <= 3.0.6-1 is needed by libzypp-1.1.0-1.11.x86_64

The forums, wiki's, etc. I've been at indicate that the one libzypp patch has to go in first, and then I can start using stuff like zen-updater or smart --gui. I have no intention of downloading any but the specific absolutely required .rpm and using the .rpm command to install it (seeing that it isn't working, anyway). I have no idea whether this failed .rpm patch install has corrupted something else, now.
Maybe I need an Alfred E. Neuman smilie...

onjoo · 08-01-2006, 06:53 AM

The suse 10.1. libzypp/Zen-updater packages can't handle rpm-patches. Dont ask me why, but it just doesnt work.

With the latest packages this should have been fixed

So downloda the full rpm. not the patch.

DeekBeek · 08-01-2006, 12:10 PM

I found an libzypp.rpm in one of the SUSE international mirrors and downloaded it, but it just spits back multiple failed dependencies when I use rpm -Uvh. If I try to install it with Yast, then all that happens is Yast prompts for the install media disk and re-installs my current libzypp version. Nothing solved.
I actually got zen-updater to install this same file with a return message that it was successful (by right-clicking the file with firefox on-line and using the default zen-installer in the open with or save to disk dialog; I just had to wait for the file to download first). After I did that, Yast would no longer run any module. This is a dumb waste.