OpenMandriva puts on a master class of Linux beauty and user-friendliness - zdnet.com

[gmoiens (Geoffrey Moiens)]

OpenMandriva puts on a master class of Linux beauty and user-friendliness | ZDNET

[fleurc (Anon)]

Something that they missed on this is that ROME should not be updated with Discover, but through Distrosync in either dnfdrake or through terminal:

Upgrading to and upgrading ROME (rolling)

First user needs to read and understand this article OpenMandriva Release Plan and Repositories in OpenMandriva wiki. A ROME user should be able to use command line and know basics of dnf package manager. To use ROME user either installs ROME from a ROME ISO or upgrades a Rock/4.3 system. Upgrades from earlier versions of Rock will not work. A fresh install is always preferred over a system upgrade. Always backup your data before doing a system upgrade. Important: Before upgrading an existin…

[ben79 (Ben Bullard)]

Thanks for passing that one on. Nice to hear some kind works.

[gmoiens (Geoffrey Moiens)]

You’re welcome

[Onlooker0708]

What exactly is the reason for that? Shouldn’t Discover/packagekit/DNF work fine? It does on Fedora.

[rugyada]

@Onlooker0708

It does on Fedora.

And…?
OpenMandriva is not Fedora (nor anything else).

What works for other distro may not work for OM.
And more than often what does not work in other distro it does in OM.

[Onlooker0708]

Yes but both use RPM packages with the DNF package manager. So how come Discover can be used in Fedora but not in OpenMandriva?

[rugyada]

OpenMandriva ROME 23.03 – OpenMandriva

The reason is explained everywhere, search in forum.

[ben79 (Ben Bullard)]

@Onlooker0708

What exactly is the reason for that? Shouldn’t Discover/packagekit/DNF work fine? It does on Fedora.

This has nothing to do with how they work it has to do with using the correct command. You can use Discover and dnfdragora in ROME. If you upgrade your system with them you will encounter errors.

The recommended upgrade procedure for ROME is:

$ sudo dnf --refresh dsync

Specific: distro-sync or dsync literally sync with the latest package list in distro-release* packages and that list does change for ROME. In Rock branch that list is static so upgrading with Discover, dindragora, or dnf upgrade, dnf up all should work in Rock.

I don’t use any GUI package manager except for when I test them. We see more problems that begin with something like “I did >foo< with Discover” or “I did >foo< with dnfdragora”. My theory is that users get hypnotized by the GUI and do not read the error or other messages.

I believe dnfdrake has the ability for user to select whether to use dnf dsync or dnf up. But there are other folks here that know dnfdrake far better than I do. I do consider this the best of the GUI package managers.

[rugyada]

@ben79

I believe dnfdrake has the ability for user to select whether to use dnf dsync or dnf up. But there are other folks here that know dnfdrake far better than I do

Yes one of its feature is to check the system it is running on, and auto-set itself to distro-sync (ROME and Cooker) or Update Sys (Rock).