Problems accessing updates
Hi all, I am new to SuSE (9.2 DVD x86_64). I come from a Mandrake / PCLOS background. I am having what I suppose is a basic problem trying to install updates. I have set up the ftp site in YaST - Online Updates and it fetches the list of updates. Problem is I can't seem to install packages the are supposed to be in the x86_64 directory. Bacically what I am saying is I can't seem to install new x86_64 software from ftp sites. I must be making a simple mistake but this is the first time I have used the SuSE package manger / YaST. Could someone maybe let me know what I am doing wrong or point me to a FAQ for installing new packages? Thanks. John Watson.
bcch@orange.net writes:
Hi all,
I am new to SuSE (9.2 DVD x86_64). I come from a Mandrake / PCLOS background. I am having what I suppose is a basic problem trying to install updates. I have set up the ftp site in YaST - Online Updates and it fetches the list of updates. Problem is I can't seem to install packages the are supposed to be in the x86_64 directory.
There's no need to setup a ftp site, just talk the default.
Bacically what I am saying is I can't seem to install new x86_64 software from ftp sites. I must be making a simple mistake but this is the first time I have used the SuSE package manger / YaST.
Could someone maybe let me know what I am doing wrong or point me to a FAQ for installing new packages?
What is your problem: Installing new packages or doing an Online update? Please tell us step by step what you've done, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
On Sunday 06 February 2005 16:21, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
What is your problem: Installing new packages or doing an Online update?
Please tell us step by step what you've done,
OK, I think I am getting a little confused here. I am confusing update patches and new software. I went to YaST2->Change Source of Installation->Add new ftp I type in ftp.mirror.nl for server and pub/mirror/suse/x86_64/9.2/suse/x86_64 for the directory. But I now get an error InstSrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media. I am guessing there is an index file missing? Something like a Mandrake hdlist maybe? PS no problem installing new patches
On Sunday 06 February 2005 18:15, Arjen Runsink wrote:
On Sunday, 6 February 2005 17:29, John wrote:
I type in ftp.mirror.nl for server and pub/mirror/suse/x86_64/9.2/suse/x86_64
pub/mirror/suse/x86_64/9.2
will work
BB, Arjen
Thanks you guys. Sorted now. Really enjoying SuSE :)
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 04:29:43PM +0000, John wrote:
On Sunday 06 February 2005 16:21, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
What is your problem: Installing new packages or doing an Online update?
Please tell us step by step what you've done,
OK, I think I am getting a little confused here. I am confusing update patches and new software. I went to YaST2->Change Source of Installation->Add new ftp
I type in ftp.mirror.nl for server and pub/mirror/suse/x86_64/9.2/suse/x86_64 for the directory. But I now get an error InstSrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media.
This path is wrong. Remove the last suse/x86_64 part from the path.
I am guessing there is an index file missing? Something like a Mandrake hdlist maybe?
No. Wrong directory. Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de
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