[ltp] SuSe 9.1 Personal edition on ThinkPad X1: Howto install new rpm using YaST?

[nut megger]

Thank you for your input.  However, in my original
message I mentioned (and you overlooked) two critical
items:

(1) I have a VERY, VERY slow dial-up modem connection
at home and so any network installation is
unreasonable. (I know, I should get something faster,
but for this inquiry let's assume that network
installation is not available).

(2) I do not want to use the command line but do want
to use YaST. (Why have a powerful tool like YaST if
one has to go to the command line? I know, YaST cannot
handle everything)

Are you saying the YaST cannot handle installation of
rpms that have been burned onto a CD?


--- Benjamí_Villoslada <benjami@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 05:06:34 -0700 (PDT), nut megger
> wrote:
> > The system hummed for a while and
> > then asked me to put in the SuSe 9.1 CD 1.  Why? 
> The
> > rpm I want is on the CD I burned at work.
> 
> Possibly due to dependencies.
> 
> Enter in the command line and login as root with 'su
> -'
> 
> Then type
> 
> rpm -ihv /directory-route-to-cd/rpm-name.rpm
> 
> rpm command shows the error dependencies else the
> program is intalled :)
> 
> (type exit to leave root)
> 
> > Then used YaST to indicate the current burned CD
> is a
> > new source (have no idea what I am doing here) and
> > could not do anything with this fresh disk loaded
> with
> > newly downloaded rpms.
> 
> Instead of your CD, is best to include one of those
> complete FTP
> mirrors in the sources section:
> 
>
http://www.suse.com/us/private/download/ftp/int_mirrors.html
> 
> When you incude the server, YaST dowload the program
> list available in
> the server.
> 
> With one ftp or http server in the sources, you
> don't need more CDs
> because from now YaST make network installations.
> 
> > Can someone take me step by step through
> installing a
> > new rpm from a non-official SuSe cd using YaST?
> 
> Another method is apt.  The advantatge is that apt
> system downloads
> the requested program and all programs required
> (dependencies).
> 
> http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/
> 
> > Note: NOT interested in using terminal commands
> since
> > it defeats the purpose of having YaST.
> 
> 'su -'
> 'rpm -ihv'
> and
> 'exit'
> is a snap ;)  and show more information
> (dependencies in this case).
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Benjamí
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> 
> 
> 
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