Am Dienstag, 27. Mai 2003 23:19 schrieb Richard Andrews:

Hi Jeff,

thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately the IP address made no difference. Could it be that the FTP update route is only available for the actual original setup of SuSE since the error below seems to point to the absence of some Install Src record in the FTP directory.

Perhaps FTP alternative sources for updates aren't available for DVD/CD installed versions of SuSE??

For info I tried the following entries in the YaST dialog for alternative installation source...

Server name: ftp.suse.sk (as well as 147.175.1.23) Directory: i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.2/yast-source (with various combinations of leading trailing slashes etc.)

All ended up with the same error message :-(

Regards

Rich

Hmmm, it is possible, that Yast needs active FTP access, whereas a browser or fully grown ftp client works with passive ftp. If you have no high ports open (local firewall, router, proxy, etc), then you can view the site with konqueror (passive) but yast (active) fails (assuming my guess is right). Don't know it for sure, but perhaps it's worth a look. Daniel

Richard,

thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately the IP address made no difference. Could it be that the FTP update route is only available for the actual original setup of SuSE since the error below seems to point to the absence of some Install Src record in the FTP directory.

Perhaps FTP alternative sources for updates aren't available for DVD/CD installed versions of SuSE??

I have a CD installation of SuSE 8.2 and I was able to add an ftp site for updates. I tried a number of mirrors that failed with the error message you got about missing Install Src or something like that. I did get one ftp site to work, and was able to update KDE to 3.1.2 using that site. On Change Installation source in Yast 2 I clicked add. I checked the ftp radio button. for ftp site I put ftp.leo.org For directory I put /pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.2/yast-source I left it at anonymous ftp. This worked fine for me. Other ftp sites gave the error messsage. you might try this. Mike -- Michael A. Coan Woodlawn Foundation 524 North Avenue, Suite 203 New Rochelle, NY 10801-3410 tel 914-632-3778 fax 914-632-5502