Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Dave Barton <bmcs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 21:23 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm new to Suse (and Linux, for that matter) and was trying to
> follow this great set of instructions to add support for things like
> Windows media file formats.
> > http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42/
8<-- snip -->8
> What that means, is that your connection didn't work. It is trying to
> update. I dunno about yast - you can't kill it like other processes.
> Anyway, all looked good except for the packman one. I found the yast
> sources at:
> ftp://packman.unixheads.com/suse/10.0/
> Try that.
> Always try the links in a browser or ftp client prior to actually
> adding
> them as sources.
> kai ponte

You might want to try putting http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/10.0/ as
the url in the YAST installation source. Don't forget to enable it
there. This should get you the Packman packages you want.

HTH
Dave