Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-xorg (54 mails)

[Colin Carter <colincarter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 11 March 2005 18:38, Ingo Strauch wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:08:56 -0500
>
> Geoffrey <esoteric@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Yast will work on a console as well.  It doesn't make sense to use a
> > non-standard app (apt) to update your packages on Suse.  It won't keep
> > your rpm database properly updated.
>
> Now you got me curious. Apt will use the same RPM files as Yast and
> underneath will use the same rpm executable to install them. How should
> that lead to differences or even a not properly updated rpm database? Or
> did I miss something?
>
> But I agree that yast shouldn't be too difficult either. The trick as
> you said is simply typing a name to the search field and see what comes
> up.
>
> Cheers,
> Ingo
Thanks for the opinions.  I am gaining a lot from you guys.

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.
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.
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.