Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3349 mails)

["Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx>]

kanenas wrote:
> Oh, waitaminute y'all!!!
> This thread has been highjacked!!!
>  
Sorry, so much mail moving through its so easy to miss.
> I started the thread, asking for help on installing downloaded rpms with 
> yast!!!!!!
> I am glad Colin is getting his help, but can anyone shed some light on what 
> might be amiss if i right click on a downloaded rpm file, click on install 
> with yast and a subsequent failure? That's on Suse 9.2-X64, with every other 
> aspect of yast running great!!!!
>
>  
If I am understanding you correctly, it must be a bug as I have seen it 
here too (9.2, x86_64).  On mine, if you try what you suggested above, 
it may also reinstall the original rpm.  My workaround is to always use 
kpackage.
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