Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-xorg (54 mails)

[Ingo Strauch <brack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:57:04 +1100
Colin Carter <colincarter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I switched off and logged in as root and run up Yast as you suggested.
> I put emacs (and again with xemacs) into the search box as suggested.
> Yast displayed, in RHS window, all modules installed, with a tick in
> each check box.
> So, as a test, I unticked the  -el-  module and clicked "Accept".
> Took some time, but it eventually un-installed this module.
> Then I repeated the search and got a list of the installed modules,
> with check boxes ticked; but no sign of any module ( eg  -el- )
> available for installation.

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.


> I did fiddle with the 'filter' but couldn't get Yast to display any 
> 'available' software, just the software already installed.
> This is why I turned to rpm in the first place.

BTW, where did you get the RPMs from you used in previous mails?


> Am I supposed to do something special to get such a list displayed?
> From Konqueror I have triggered a Yast installation; Yast started up,
> whirred a bit, but it never installed anything.
> 
> I tried this with/without DVD in drive.

To me it looks like you need to add a valid installation source. But
it's strange that the DVD isn't in there/doesn't work automatically.

Cheers,
Ingo

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