Im fairly new to SUSE. Im guessing I can update via YAST if I use the correct source. Anyone kindly point me in the direction of a source address? Im guessing I need to specify a User-Defined Location too within Online Update?

all you need to know about suse YAST sources is located in this thread

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=253645

Just have to change some of the ftp addys.

I did it the other day from SuSE 9.1 KDE 3.1 - KDE 3.4. Everything works great, just a few small problems. I haven't been able figure out some boot problems at the KDE log-in, some of them may be fine, not sure. The only other thing that did not work is for some reason my screen savers do not work. This may more have to do with using YOU to install the nvidia drivers at the same time, that I can’t seem to get to work right with my card. Other then that the upgrade worked great and I was able to tweak everything the way I liked it in a short amount of time.

Michael J
FTP's Novell Upgrade Page

Many thanks JaySuSE. Ill have a go later.

Ive done what it says in the guide. Restarted but found ive not actually got what im expecting. Fvwm2? One with eyes that follow the cursor around the screen. Ideas on what I need to do now?

Resolved by changing runtime to 5 rather than 3. I did prefer to start without X but never mind

Wow - Lineart Logo desktop background rules.

How did you get to run lvl 3? Are you supposed to do those updates when in run lvl 3 root?

Going straight to the desktop and bypassing the login and the other prompts, is on my to-do list of things to figure out. I just have a long list right now so haven’t had a chance to figure it out. I would imagine changing those settings is made available easily through somewhere in the control center. I thought something happened when I restarted and it said it booted kdm and I didn’t use KDE anywhere just a text based login. Once I did that everything worked but since it brought up the kdm now I saw a lot of new msgs under the login working on figuring them all out.

Right now I am in the office, I will look into some of the issues later, I hope!

Michael J

Yeah, some the new wallpapers are very nice. The ability to download more was pretty neato also, I made a very sharp 1600x1280 theme with the one downloaded wallpaper of tux with Out of My Way below him in a cowboy outfit or something like that. I try and have a very clean and sharp desktop. It took a lot of work to get it down, but I still seem to be having a problem with some fonts and apps I believe it may have something to do with my nvidia driver problems. My fonts seem to bleed or bubble in certain sizes and apps. I don't recommend any of those custom themes they seem to change defaults or something causing problems, I made one of my own and it did not create it right so I need to work that out.

Just curious do your screen savers work and if they do, do you have a nvidia video card?

Michael J

I start with just a console screen. But after login use 'startx' to fire up KDE. Im now going stright to a login prompt.

If you want to skip login though

Control Center > System Administration > Login Manager > Convenience



Oh and I had them logs on the login window after the upgrade. Fixed it by doing what it says in the second post in this thread...

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=303103

I use the Matrix Screen Saver, ATI card on a laptop. Works fine still.

GL!

I've upgraded last night my SuSE 9.2 install to KDE 3.4 via YAST this way :

1. launch YAST

2. go to Novell web site and choose a mirror near to you (I've done it via ftp.suse.com)

3. in yast go to chnage the installation source and add the mirror near to you (buttons at the bottom of the window -> add -> ftp) and yoy type this in the cases :

server name : fr2.rpmfind.net (no // no : no ftp or http, just the server's name)
location : linux/SuSE-Linux/ (do not type the first / in fornt of the string, it'll add it itself)

4. once a new source addes you have to go to "install and remove software" and markthe "keep" case in the left pannel and choose "installation sumary", then you'll see all the packages installed some with black color, some with red and some with blue

5. for all the KDE packages marked with blue color you just click to the icon in the left until il changes in "update" (you'll have to do that to all blue marked packages)

6. once the marking finished you have to click next to update, it'll take a while and at the end don't forget to reboot.

to me all il worked well (I've answered to ignore all packages dependencies question 'cause I was going to update'em all requested) and no error or problems.

now I'm running KDE 3.4

i tried to add this thing as ftp.
but it reported that it lacks a kind of "list" ( i forget exact name )

what step I am missing ya?

thanks!!

I guess you miss a lot of the path (I wonder how piratu was successful with this path )
With the above server, this path should work (exchange the x in 'update_for_9.x' for your current version):
linux/SuSE-Linux/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.x/yast-source

But have a look for a mirror close to your location. The download might be faster:
http://www.novell.com/products/linux...t_mirrors.html

I was sucessfull with that path because YAST was doing path-completition itself!

by the way, the "fr2.rpmfind.net" is an example choosen, you'll type there the right mirror for you!

finally, you need a ..../yast-source to install/update

Wow! That must be a new feature of 9.2. Cool!

hei, that's not a new feature, is the way you have to type your install/update source in YAST (read the notice on the screen)

as I said, you're using YAST to install software (not to update) for the KDE 3.4 and choose to add a new source, that's all. the sources you'll find them on SuSE's mirror list.

so, there's no miracle!