MeeGo Software Updates

Revision as of 20:54, 23 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. Please review the known issues section before starting the update process.

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

The first time you run the update, you will get one package manager update that is required before we can send you the rest of the updates. Don't worry, more updates will follow.

The Update System will often 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.

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'.
• You may receive the "Additional confirmation required' dialog box. If so, click 'Continue'.
• You should receive a confirmation that all updates have installed successfully. Click 'OK'. Note: This box will disappear after a couple of minutes even if you do not click 'OK'. This is normal.

Note: If you have already installed your updates or there, 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.

Future Updates

Future updates can be installed right from the user interface without any additional terminal commands.

You should receive notifications that you have an 'Important update available'.

• Click Install updates when you see this notification.
• Follow the above instructions to 'install your updates

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

Known Issues

Broadcom Wireless Drivers

Those of you who have installed Broadcom Wireless Drivers from Slaine.org may find they no longer work after the update so will need to rebuild them by opening a terminal and running

rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i586 wl-kmod-5.60.48.36-1.moblin.src.rpm

After rebuilding, you should have working wifi. More details about the Broadcom drivers can be found at Slaine.org, and more details about this update issue can be found in this forum post.