I’ve about had all I can stomach of SuSE 10.1. The included version of Firefox crashes on me at least five times a day, normally when hitting my Backspace key in order to go back one page. It’s really freaking annoying whenever you have 8 important tabs open. I’m about to go uninstall it and see how many dependencies I can break and then install the binaries directly from Mozilla.
Also, I did finally manage to get some online package repositories added, but they’re useless. My package manager of choice, ‘apt-get’ has been removed in favor of ‘smart’ which is just totally screwed up. If I want to install one package, it decides that I need to install the X.org devel packages, Mesa, and about a dozen or so other ALREADY INSTALLED PROGRAMS in order to meet dependencies. Even better, it appears that I have zen-updater working, but in the two weeks or so since installing SuSE 10.1, there hasn’t been a single security update, let alone any bug fixes for the numerous known problems that have been documented. Which leads me to believe that zen-updated actually ISN’T working.
*Sigh* – I think I might have to rever to 10.0 or maybe even think of going with another distro – because this is borderline ridiculous.
I’ve had 0 problems with 10.1. If I were you I wouldn’t uninstall Firefox. I’d dl it from Mozilla, untar to /usr/programs, and rm the old binary. That way any dependencies are working and you can run the new version from /usr/programs/firefox. That’s what I do.
As for apt-get and smart — I can’t help you there.
Package Manager Fix
Another set of patches
Yeah, I read that yesterday – can’t wait for them to be released. “I’ve had it up to here” with YaST lately. I’ve had to resort to my old tried true method of downloading RPM’s from the mirrors and installing them “the hard way.”
[...] I’ve complained before about the problems with package management and system updates on SuSE 10.1. Well, today, I have some good news to report: I forced myself into a reboot this morning by pulling out my optical drive which froze my system completely. When I rebooted, the Zen Updated applet was complaining about updates so I clicked on it. Nothing happened really, so I thought I’d try (yet again) the System Update option in YaST. Well, I did, and it worked! It installed about five or six package updates and as soon as it was finished, I started Zen Updater and was able to start the real update option. [...]