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

[Benjamí Villoslada]

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).



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Benjamí
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