Ok, we will spell it out yet again
YAST
Package Management
Package Information
Hit F9 to include the install media in your search
Type in your search
Press Enter
Wait while the search is running
Find the package if it is available
Press the space bar to select the package - an X will appear on your screen
in the [ ] area in front of your package
Press F10 to install package - it may drop you back to the main Package
Management screen without installing - in that case just hit Start
Installation to install your package.
I don't see a non intuitive piece to that puzzle
John W Higgins
john@wishdev.com
P.S. You were looking in the Install Packages option which by the way would
work as well. You forgot that when you MOUNT your CD it becomes part of your
directory tree making Directory a very good option to use the CD. The
install packages option is not meant generally for grabbing files from the
CD installation media. It's meant for packages that you have download or
wish to download. And patches is not what it applies - it applies full
packages to the system.
-----Original Message-----
From: babu walad [mailto:vyav@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 8:41 AM
To: John W Higgins; suse-linux-e@suse.com
Subject: RE: [SLE] search / select package to load with Yast/Yast2
I disagree.
I've already been through that option and it is used
for installing package PATCHES. Furthermore, in the
choice for source, you are given options for: ftp,
source medium (greyed out), directory, floppy.
Let's see, I have 7.1 distro CDs I want to install
from.
Let's see, CD is not ftp,
CD is not directory,
CD is not floppy,
CD *might* be source medium BUT IT IS
GREYED OUT
Gee, no choices left.
No, I don't think it is intuitive.
If anybody has the answer how to search and install
a particular package off the distro CDs please let
me know.
Thanks,
Babu
--- John W Higgins
Under YAST it's extraordinarily intuitive to do.
Goto package management - sounds perfectly logical to me.
Then lets see what we have available
Load configuration - Not a good choice Save configuration - Got nothing to save Change/create configuration - we are looking for something specific Package Information - DING DING DING - we've got a possible winner - and look - it's actually the right choice!!!!! Install Packages - another possibility Delete Packages - NOPE
Now even if one takes a view that the term "Package Information" might be slightly non-intuitive - you've only got 6 choices at hand - one should really be able to look thru 6 different choices and find the correct one even if they are labeled A,B,C,D,E and F.
John W Higgins john@wishdev.com
-----Original Message----- From: babu walad [mailto:vyav@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 5:12 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] search / select package to load with Yast/Yast2
Folks,
I know I did this once, but I just cannot remember how I stumbled on this before. How do I tell yast/yast2 what specific package I want to install on an existing installation? How can I search for a given package name and get a list of matches and pick the one(s) I want to install?
I sure is NOT intuitive how to do this with Yast/Yast2!
Thanks for your help.
Babu
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