How to upgrade mono on openSuse - linux

I have a virtual machine running of openSuse 11.2 that has mono 2.6.4, I use this VM as a test server to test asp.net applications under Apache mod_mono.
I wanted to upgrade (in the same virtual machine) to mono 2.8.2. I downloaded several rpm files from http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/download-stable/openSUSE_11.2/i586/ but I'm in a dependency "loop", don't know which package to install in the correct order...
(Did I mention that I know very little of suse?)
Edit: Is it possible to find a way to upgrade it without network connectivity?
Thanks!

Go to this page at opensuse.org and click "1-Click Install" button on mono-complete-2.8.2 meta package. Then all your loop dependencies will be solved automatically by YaST manager.
It is a usual user-friendly way to install packages on openSuSE.

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Because of demand, I've looked into porting the project to CentOS, but found that many of the packages I require are completely missing - at least 10 dependencies would have to be compiled manually at install time on the users machine.
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Should the configure script just warn the user that package X is missing, and let them handle the rest?
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