Comments on: Using openSUSE zypper for package management (adding, removing, repository management)

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By: Delphin

Delphin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:51:52 +0000

Though I am quite new to openSuse I believe the addlock-function of zypper will do what you want. See
$zypper help addlock
for more details.

- Delphi

By: Carlos A.

Carlos A. — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:20:06 +0000

My english sucks, have to use more of my time checking it. =P Thanks again for the answer to: update all but one package.

By: Carlos A.

Carlos A. — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:17:53 +0000

Hey there, thanks for the advice, although I already did the reinstallation of flash-plugin with zypper, because I spoiled the previous one when I uninstalled flash-player, long story but doesn’t matter now. right?

About the second question, I usually do:
zypper up -t package
to do a complete update but, how can I make zypper update all with one or two exceptions? Like in the above case: update all the packages (usually are KDE) but not update flash-player.
Happy with the fast answer, and a grateful for the advices.

By: ben.kevan

ben.kevan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:18:29 +0000

Carlos A.

Thanks for the comment. Unfortunatly openSUSE has not released the 10.x package in their openSUSE buildservice (except for openSUSE 11.1 which is currently in beta)… however, it’s easily installed .

First remove the installed flash version:

sudo rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep flash-player`

You can then download the RPM based package from Adobe’s website. Once downloaded you can run:

sudo rpm -Uvh flash-package-name.rpm

That will then install (it should install in the path that all browsers look in). If not.. I have an older blog about it.

If you find that too confusing .. feel free to wait and upgrade to 11.1 when it’s released (it should be on schedule), that will ship with 10.x.

Also, not sure if I understand your last question.. do you want to update just 1 package? Or update all except one package? I’ll start working on part 2 of my zypper blab..

By: Carlos A.

Carlos A. — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:38:03 +0000

Dear openSuSE minion, XD
I have these problem, during an update, in the many alternatives have flash-player v 9.0.151 available. But its more than a month that Adobe released Flash 10, which one is better and why Flash 10 isn’t available yet.
Second, which is related and certainly you’re in the position to answer this question: How can I use zypper to procede with an update (I use zypper up -t package) but not allowing the update of just one application? like in this case, flash-player.
Thanks for your attention and the always appreciated answers.

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