On Saturday 02 July 2005 22:04, William Coulter wrote:
> Today I installed SUSE 9.3 and it went smoothly. After the install,
> I did an update through YAST. I thought that it would do the same
> thing as YUM or up2date but I didn't get the same results. Let me
> explain. For example: I ran YUM with fc3. Firefox 1.0.1 was
> installed and when I did an up2date it installed version 1.0.4. This
> was great. Now on the other hand, firefox 1.0.1 is installed but
> when I ran YAST, version 1.0.1 was still installed.
>
> What I want to know is, why didn't it upgrade firefox to 1.0.4 and
> how do I do this?
>
William, welcome to SuSE. You updated after install with YOU (Yast
Online Update) I presume. Basically those are security updates, bug
fixes, etc. for changes in the packages since they were published on
the CD/DVD. It is not like a YUM.
YOU is not designed to upgrade existing packages. (Although there is a
way to do that by adding mirrors and altering the way Yast looks for
packages ) I have never done it. If you want to keep your new SuSE
right up on the the latest packages I would recommend that you install
apt-get, or YUM, if you prefer. Never used YUM, love apt-get.
Bob S.
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