https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230673 ------- Comment #5 from achiestdragon@whipy.demon.co.uk 2007-01-20 05:54 MST ------- ok think this belongs here i cant install a rpm file thats held on local disk yast says database is locked and in use by another program updater says canot find the rpm reposatory for the rpm that it has localy never had this problem prior to zmd , this is a real pain , if it fails then theres no way to install a rpm fix , but zmd will update online now at least but after trying to install a rpm localy via yast it locks up the whole update system , i have to manualy unlock the database each time and it still locks back up the next time i try the only way left to install anything that is not distributed as a suse official rpm is to search all the rpm reposotories for the file you want and if its not there your stuffed , thats how it is at the moment well a bit better than 10.1 where i still canot get it to update or install anything thats not on the origianl dvd , other than downloading the source ,and compileing it on the machine back a few years ago there used to be the term rpm hell but that was not as bad as the current situation , i have 3 machines here 2 running suse 10.2 and one still on 10.1 online update works fine on one , and needs a restart after each on the other or it tries telling me that all updates have not been installed after updating one file it seems that having 3 diferent programs doing package managment will never work together as there will always be some conflict , one of them has to go users canot be expected to have to spend hours trying to install software that would just install if it was not for the borked packagemanagment i do think one solution that would help if there is any chance of it is the following on the install , add an option that will let you chouse what packagmanagment system you want ie yast only , or full zmd ,yast and rug stateing that the full zmd,yast and rug is still alpha/beta software and may give problems cause its definatly not final if it is it reflects badly on the linux developers that produce good stable software that works without problems -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.