Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1318 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 30 April 2009 08:03:31 am Stan Goodman wrote:
> If still nothing can be deducted disable all online repositories, drop
>
> > DVD in the drive, install Wireshark, run it and then try to update.
> > Output is verbose, but there is no chance not to find out what is going
> > wrong.
>
> I have disabled all the repositories and installed Wireshark. I then
> called it to bring up its UI, but did nothing within it, because I am not
> clear what I should do. 

Hovering over first few icons from left to right will give you tooltips popups 
that should be clear enough what that icons do. I use one that offer available 
interfaces, and choose eth0 from selection, and then Start. Following capture 
is running on that interface only. 

> With the program running, I clicked on the
> updates icon (which has changed since yesterday from being an orange
> triangle to being a dark square with a white downward-pointing arrow in
> its center). This brings up a dialog box telling me that I have two
> optional updates waiting (only two?); it has the expected "Install"
> button for confirmation, but it is greyed out, so there is nothing to
> click. Meantime,  nothing has happened either in the Wireshark window or
> in the terminal from which I called it.

What I did forget to tell that disabling online repositories is just temporary 
measure to enable Wireshark installation without wading trough error messages. 
After Wireshark is installed  you should turn them again on. Sorry for 
confusion.

-- 
Regards, Rajko
http://news.opensuse.org/category/people-of-opensuse/

-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx