Packages and Patches Updates

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop SLED Updates
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After installed the SLED 11 R2, went to YaST2 → Support → two choices relevant:

  1. Novell Customer Center Configuration and

  2. Support (floating ring icon)

If I select the Novell Customer Center Configuration–> fill in my registered email → Browser starts checking the available packages. It then returns message: Software repositories did not to be changed.

But if I select the Support icon → Open Novell Support Center → Novell Patch Finder → SLED 11 R2 → It returns a long list of the current patches (Some are mandatory, others recommended).

It looks like there is no package to update, but there are patches available for updates. For such a long list of patches, is there a better and more efficient way for me to update them? (rather than download and update one by one)

2

Hi
Either YaST online update (You), the packagekit update icon which
runs from time to time or via the commandline;

zypper ref
zypper lu
zypper up

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 3.0.38-0.5-default
up 1 day 22:11, 2 users, load average: 0.47, 0.52, 0.51
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3

this sounds a bit like the registration did not succeed. Unfortunately the frontend is not very good at showing you the error message. what is the output of:

egrep -o -- '<subscription.*>' /root/.suse_register.log