Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (668 mails)

[mclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Clark)]

If you open yast and select "Choose/Install packages", then choose "Install
packages" (the third item from the bottom on this menu).

The screen that comes up is a horizontally split window with "Source:
(none)" highlighted blue in the upper left hand corner.  Hit the down arrow
and you are given a choice of "Directory, FTP, Source medium, or Floppy"
(this is how you update via ftp and suse's ftp server, too).  Select
"Directory" and point to your rpm's.

I installed beta-3 via ftp (even while using kde as my window manager while
doing it) and it worked perfect.

Good luck

michael

Chris Herrnberger wrote:

> Sorry for this question, but Im trying to learn the operation of Yast.
> Example:
>
> Say I download a program in rpm format (eg: KDE beta 3.1)and download it
> to a directory in /root/download. Can I use Yast to install and
> configure the program and if so how? Or must this be undertaken by hand?
>
> Currently I have installed several programs, netscape 3.0.4,
> Communicator 4.0.4, ezppp and StarOffice4.0. However all of these
> programs have been installed by hand so to speak with help from on line
> doumentation. Was wondering if Yast can be used to undertake this
> process instead. This is a stand alone system, running SuSE 5.1
>
> TIA
>
> ch
>
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