On Thursday 29 March 2007 13:50, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
There is one (1) aspect of zen that I DO like. There are certain packages that I use that do not come from SuSE sources, Gramps for one. Yast can't seem to install from my Download Directory since about 10.0. It won't accept it as an install source at all. If I right click on it there are two (2) "Open With" > "Install Software" things to choose from. The second one will do a VERY good job of installing the software. The first one doesn't do much of anything as far as I can tell.
If I click on the RPM in Konqueror it, I guess, opens to another thing with two boxes at the top. One says "Install With Yast" and the other says to make it an install source. OK, Install With Yast - Yes - "No source available". In 9.X [ whatever I was using ] Yast worked just fine for installing things like Gramps from my Download Directory. Never argued one bit.
As I recall that was because a command (installation_source or something similar I think it was called) got replaced around 10.0 or 10.1, but Konqueror "Install With YaST" still tried to use it, so of course it failed. The command createrepo can be used to make a directory of downloaded rpms visible to YaST as an installation source. I think this can be done through Yast -> Installation Sources as well. After that you should be able to install using konqueror. Createrepo was not installed by default however, and the command needed to be run everytime an rpm package was added to or removed from the directory.
In this one instance Yast does not do as well as zen. In every other instance Yast is far superior to zen and Smart [ rather more like STUPID IMHO ].
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