Greets; Playing around with yast and installing various development tools specific for yast ended up breaking yast completely. Update no longer works and Yast/Yast2 fail to launch at all. So I needed to repair this asap. I looked at the /var/log/Yast/y2log and it tells me that no ui is available aside from a lot of output. looking at the installation log gives the following; 2004-10-31 18:15:18 yast2-devtools-2.9.17-3.noarch.rpm install failed rpm output: error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm 2004-10-31 18:15:19 y2pmsh-2.9.3-2.i586.rpm install failed rpm output: error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm 2004-10-31 18:15:28 yast2-core-2.9.79-3.i586.rpm installed ok 2004-10-31 18:15:48 yast2-packagemanager-devel-2.9.37-0.i586.rpm installed ok 2004-10-31 18:16:13 yast2-core-devel-2.9.79-3.i586.rpm installed ok 2004-10-31 18:16:15 yast2-debugger-2.9.2-11.i586.rpm installed ok 2004-10-31 18:16:17 yast2-devel-2.9.60-5.i586.rpm install failed rpm output: Ok...so I removed all the various yast-devel packages that were installed, and re-installed the following; yast2-2.9.60-5.i586.rpm yast2-core-2.9.79-3.i586.rpm yast2-packagemanager-2.9.37-0.i586 yast2-packager-2.9.43-3.i586.rpm and yast2-qt-2.9.21-0.i586.rpm Running SuSEconfig gives no errors and Yast2 finally is functional again. So in trying to install a yast2 development environment for testing I noticed a couple of things: 1. There are a number of dependencies that require you to downgrade existing installed packages. 2. The various devel packages seem to have version dependencies unique to itself. 3. Installing the various requirements and developer packages seems to break a functioning Yast2 Sorry for the long post, but a very simple question follows: What is the recommended way to setup a Yast developer environment? Regards and thanks /ch