Comments on: openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 46

By: gavinto

gavinto — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:20:57 +0000

Had a quick go with these repos last night. Once I removed my existing ones I wasn unable to add two from the above list

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/non-oss/
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/

Perhaps the server was just down. Hopefully it gets sorted this weekend, else if I have time I’ll just reluctantly re-install from DVD media.

By: gavinto

gavinto — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:30:57 +0000

Thanks for the quick response! I’ve some of those configured, but perhaps some of the other repos are causing some conflicts. I’ll delete the ones that are there now, add the ones you suggest and give it a whirl. I’ll let you know how I make out. Thanks again!

By: R. J.

R. J. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:13:30 +0000

these are the ones I use

http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.1/
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/non-oss/
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/

Open up a terminal
type su
then once you have entered your password
type zypper up

By: gavinto

gavinto — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:36:51 +0000

Hi there,

could you let me know what repositories you set up to get the update from Beta4 to Beta 5 completed? I tried with whatever repos were setup under Beta4 by default, but it didn’t work for me.

let me know what command line stuff I need to type so I don’t make any mistakes.

Thanks in advance

By: Bobby

Bobby — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:14:44 +0000

I have updated from Beta 4 to 5 using zypper dup and all went fine. I even installed KDE 4.2 unstable which is also doing fine. The only problem that I have is trying to install my Digittrade DVB-T stick. I keep getting an error 2 messsage. KDE and Qt devel packages are installed but I just can’t get the driver installed.
OpenSuse 11.1 is shaping up very nice though, just can’t wait to see the final release.

By: Beineri

Beineri — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:28:10 +0000

It helps to apply the mentioned work-around: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.1_dev#General

By: MrViklund

MrViklund — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:32:32 +0000

Beta 5 gives me problems when running in VirtualBOX with KDE. I haven’t tested Gnome.
I didn’t have any any problems in VirtualBOX when I was testing beta 4, except that I could not change to higher resolution then 1024×768.
Clearly something has changed. If it’s a problem with openSUSE or Virtual box. I have no clue. The only thing I knows is that my Mandriva 2009 installation in VirtuaBOX works flawlessly. The problem with beta 5 is that when the system has booted. I am unable to click on anything. I can move the mouse around but I can’t click. The keyboard works though. But that doesn’t help much.

By: R. J.

R. J. — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:32:40 +0000

I’ve had no problems with beta 5, what sort of problems are you having and have you filed a bug report for them?

By: MrViklund

MrViklund — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:29:41 +0000

I have a allot of problems with beta 5. Even beta 4 works better.
Waiting for beta 6.