Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 12:06 +0100, Keith Powell wrote:
> On Saturday 17 Jun 2006 8:04 am, GJE wrote:
> > Op vrijdag 16 juni 2006 22:10, schreef Keith Powell:
> > > After re-installing SUSE 10.0, I installed apt/Synaptic and tried
> > > to upgrade the default KDE 3.4.2 to 3.5.1 (or later), as I have
> > > done before. However, there don't appear to be the later KDE
> > > packages in the apt repositories, as there were before.
> > >
> > > Have they been removed?
> > >
> > > If they have, can KDE be found anywhere and upgraded with
> > > Synaptic?
> >
> > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/README
> 
> Hello Gerrit
> 
> Thank you for your reply and help. Sorry, but I can't get KDE 
> upgraded.
> 
> I have tried many times to add an installation source to YAST, as 
> given in the URL you gave me. I have followed the instructions very 
> carefully. I have also Googled to try to find the problem and to try 
> alternatives. But each time I get the error message:
> 
> ERROR (InstSrc:E_no_instrc_on_media)
> 
> I have tried various ways of splitting up the URL between the Server 
> and Directory boxes. Nothing works, and I have come to a standstill, 
> not knowing what to do next.

Try adding this link as a URL source -NOT- ftp of http source:

http://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/SUSE_Linux_10.0/

> 
> I can't get Smart to work either!
> 

For smart try this:

Note, if you're using smart:
- on 10.0:
smart channel --add \
http://software.opensuse.org/download/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/SUSE_Linux_10.0/KDE:KDE3.repo

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998


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