On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 15:18 -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Thursday 24 March 2005 12:30 pm, Ken Schneider wrote: Things are getting curiouser and curiouser. I copied the 9.1 DVD to my hard drive and have that directory as the only Yast installation source. I checked the directory explicitly and indeed the bind package (/SuSE_9.1/i586/bind-9.2.3-76.i586.rpm) is there. Yet Yast "install software" cannot find it. I looked both with a search on bind and by going into the package groups. The heading Productivity / Networking / DNS lists bind-utils but not bind.
The problem may be that when I copy the DVD to my hard drive I don't have the directory structure that Yast expects. The top levels of that structure are dvd / suse / i586. Should the installation source be given as dvd / suse, dvd, or dvd / suse / i586? Does Yast look at any files outside of i586?
Why not just cd to where the packages are and use rpm -ivh to install bind? It sounds like something did not get setup correctly with the source you have set up. You need to set it up as a directory source if you copied the DVD to your harddrive. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge