[KLUG Advocacy] Impressions of SuSe 10

Bruce Smith bruce at armintl.com
Tue Nov 1 09:15:43 EST 2005


> The trick is upgrading the needed RPM's that are already installed.
> I found one message on the SuSE mailing list explaining how to do this
> with the command line interface to software maintenance:  "y2pmsh".
> Unfortunately the message had errors, so I figured it out by using the
> "help" command in y2pmsh.
> 
> I _think_ it involved the "newer" command, then manually installing the
> one(s) I wanted to upgrade (install command, I think).  IIRC, the
> "upgrade" command does them all, if you want to or not!  (YMMV :)

lx1:~ # y2pmsh
Welcome to the YaST2 Package Manager!
This tool is meant for debugging purpose only.

initializing installation sources ...
refreshing Packman (SuSE LINUX 10.0)... ok (already up to date)
newerinitializing target ...
reading RPM database ................................................ ok
type help for help, ^D to exit

[0] y2pm > newer
k3b (0.12.3-9 / 0.12.6-3.pm.1)
libvorbis (1.1.0-8 / 1.1.1-0.pm.0)
mad (0.15.1b-0 / 0.15.1b-1.pm.0)
mpg321 (0.2.10-526 / 0.2.10-526.pm.0)
sane (1.0.15-20 / 1.0.16-0.pm.5)
xmms (1.2.10-79 / 1.2.10-79.pm.1)
xmms-lib (1.2.10-79 / 1.2.10-79.pm.1)

[0] y2pm > install xmms xmms-lib
 >   xmms (1.2.10-79 -> 1.2.10-79.pm.1) - The extensible media player
 >   xmms-lib (1.2.10-79 -> 1.2.10-79.pm.1) - The extensible media player

[0] y2pm > commit
Installing from 'Packman (SuSE LINUX 10.0)', media nr. 1
fetching xmms-lib (1.2 MB) ........................................ ok
installing [ 50%] xmms-lib-1.2.10-79.pm.1 (i586) .................. ok
fetching xmms (973.9 kB) .......................................... ok
installing [100%] xmms-1.2.10-79.pm.1 (i586) ...................... ok
reading RPM database .............................................. ok
2 packages installed

[0] y2pm > quit




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