Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-xorg (54 mails)

[Ingo Strauch <brack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:09:42 +1100
Colin Carter <colincarter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > This looks to me that Yast doesn't know about where to find new
> > packages to install. There should be a menu item "Installation
> > Source" or something. You should check that at least one source is
> > configured.
> 
> Yes, and I just double checked (again) that the source was "On"
> by opening "Change Installation Source".
> It is pointing to   dir:///media/dvdrecorder
> and I used Konqueror to view the disk to check that it was readable.
> (Drive light came on.)
> SuSE set this field automatically.  Why are there so many slashes?
> ie why  ///media and not just /media

I think this has to do with the fact that also URLs can be used like
"ftp://ftp.suse.com/...", so here you have "dir" as the protocol, the
usual "://" and then the location, which is /media/dvdrecorder. Thus
three slashes.


> I entered "neverball" (which is on the DVD under x86_64) into
> the search, but Yast returned not found.
> In fact the drive light didn't come on.

I did a search in the SuSE support database at
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/index.html

The only thing I found is this

  http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/03/ubrueck_yast-installquelle.html

Not sure if that helps.


> > BTW, where did you get the RPMs from you used in previous mails?
> 
> I just lifted them from the .x86_64 directory.  Okay?

Ah, fine ;-)

Something that popped into my mind just now: there is a command line
tool named 'pin' which IIRC can be used to search for packages on you
installation media. Not sure what it is capable of but I think you can
for example search for the package that contains a given file.

Cheers,
Ingo

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