MeeGo Software Updates

Revision as of 14:41, 20 June 2010

Use these instructions at your own risk. These instructions are only for updating MeeGo 1.0 for Netbooks, and we are still testing the update features.

Update Setup (One-time Steps)

When you want to begin updating your system and testing our update process for the first time, you will need to complete these one-time steps. Again, just a quick reminder that we are still testing the update process, so proceed at your own risk.

Add the Update Repositories

• Open a terminal window (Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal)
• Change to the super user using the 'su' command.
• Type the following command into your terminal window to add the repository for the core update:

zypper ar http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/builds/1.0/latest/core/repos/ia32/packages core-update-testing

• Note: You will probably get a message that 'PackageKit is blocking zypper.....tell packagekit to quit (yes/no)'. Type 'yes' to allow zypper to quit packagekit.

yes

• Type the following command into your terminal window to add the repository for the netbook UI update:

zypper ar http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/builds/1.0/latest/netbook/repos/ia32/packages netbook-update-testing

• If you want to also update Chrome, type this additional command to add the non open source repo to get the chrome updates:

zypper ar http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/builds/1.0/latest/non-oss/repos/ia32/packages non-oss-update-testing.

Refresh the New Repositories

After adding your repos, you will need to do a refresh by typing:

zypper refresh

Install Updates

Update via the GUI Update System

   * Navigate in the user interface to Applications -> System Tools -> Update System.
   * After it refreshes the software list, Click 'Install Updates'.
   * If you have already installed your updates, you should get a dialog telling you that all software is up to date. 

The Update System may run through more than one wave of updates. This is normal. We often need to do updates in stages to resolve update dependencies. Continue to let it run through the updates.

More help using the GUI update system can be found in our online user help documentation.

Future Updates

You should receive notifications about installing future updates right from the user interface without any additional actions.

You can also manually check for updates via the GUI Update System:

• Navigate in the user interface to Applications -> System Tools -> Update System.
• After it refreshes the software list, Click 'Install Updates'.
• If you have already installed your updates, you should get a dialog telling you that all software is up to date.

More help using the GUI update system can be found in our online user help documentation.

Known Issues and Workarounds

There are too many updates, and I can't scroll down far enough to confirm them

Note: This issue should be fixed as of June 20.

This is a known high priority bug.

Here is the workaround to do a manual command line update:

• Open a terminal window (Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal)
• Change to the super user using the 'su' command.
• After adding your repos, you will need to do a refresh by typing:

zypper refresh

• Install the updates

zypper patch

You may need to issue the 'zypper patch' command more than once if you receive a message asking you to 'run this command once more to install other needed patches.'

Note: You may see several warnings. Do not be alarmed - the update should continue past the warnings. Again, keep in mind that this is a one-time step and future updates will be easier to complete using the GUI update tool.