[AuckLUG] SuSE 10.1 Œ

[Neil Harsant]

Hi David,
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 20:40, David Love wrote:
  > Hello
  > I am very new to the Linux platform and am trying to get to grips with
  > SuSE 10.1 on an old Dell Optiplex, which is networked to a Windows
  > machine.  Both share the same keyboard, mouse and monitor through a
  > KVM switch.
  > At present my preferred desktop is KDE and I also use the KOffice
  > suite.  Recently there has been updates to each and I want to upgrade.
  > And this is where my ignorance "kicks in".
  > If I go to the KDE website and choose to upgrade, say KOffice, and
  > select the SuSE 10.1 package, I am taken to a FTP site and presented
  > with a directory named 10.1.  Clicking on this opens it and displays
  > numerous files, which I presume are the upgrades.  My questions is:
  > Do I have to select all of those files and download them to my
  > computer?  Or is there some simpler way.
I would recommend that you use SuSE's inbuilt online updater tool which is
a function within YaST. This tool is the safer bet if you are unused to the
ins and outs of Linux as it will sort out inter-dependencies and it will
get updates that are guaranteed to be compatible with your existing
SuSE 10.1 installation.
   You will find YaST startup under the "System" menu selection. It will
require you to enter the root password (As you will be altering the system).
Once it starts select "Software" on the left panel and then "Online Update"
on the right. Don't be too worried if nothing much happens for a while.
Novell's recent changes to YaST have made it tiresomely slow.
Eventually you will get a menu which should show you all the
software updates that are relevant for your configuration.
If you get to this point and then get stuck I'm sure someone on this group 
will be happy to take you thru the following steps to get your updates.
 regards,
     Neil Harsant
  > Any assistance would be very welcome.  But please not too technical as
  > I'm very much a Linux novice.
  >
  > David
  > --
  > David Love
  > Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
  >
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