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Re: [SLE] Naive, newbie question concerning installs to a Suse system
- From: Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:23:10 -0400
- Message-id: <1130019790.17707.15.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 18:16 -0400, Steve Jacobs wrote:
> I've got a freshly-installed Suse 10 system. (Eval)
>
> There are a few things I want to add to the system (lineakd, lame, Opera 8.5,
> among others).
>
> I've been slowly learning more about Linux for a few years now, and for the
> last couple of years have been messing around with Suse 9.0 and Suse 9.1.
>
> My impression is that if I want to maintain the usability of Yast and RPM in
> general, I have to do all of my installs through them. In other words, if I
> choose to do an install manually somehow, like rpm from the command-line,
> Yast will no longer know what's what and will become undependable.
Not true. YaST uses the same RPM data base as the command line rpm.
> If I install something via a script, or recompile something in to the kernel
> myself, than RPM won't have an accurate database and will be unusable.
Just keep in mind that the same rpm database is used for any rpm based
operation.
> Is this a valid concern, or are the experienced among you shaking your heads
> and laughing at my ignorance?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
> I've got a freshly-installed Suse 10 system. (Eval)
>
> There are a few things I want to add to the system (lineakd, lame, Opera 8.5,
> among others).
>
> I've been slowly learning more about Linux for a few years now, and for the
> last couple of years have been messing around with Suse 9.0 and Suse 9.1.
>
> My impression is that if I want to maintain the usability of Yast and RPM in
> general, I have to do all of my installs through them. In other words, if I
> choose to do an install manually somehow, like rpm from the command-line,
> Yast will no longer know what's what and will become undependable.
Not true. YaST uses the same RPM data base as the command line rpm.
> If I install something via a script, or recompile something in to the kernel
> myself, than RPM won't have an accurate database and will be unusable.
Just keep in mind that the same rpm database is used for any rpm based
operation.
> Is this a valid concern, or are the experienced among you shaking your heads
> and laughing at my ignorance?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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