Hey, I just followed the instructions to the letter on the inside of the jewell case that it came in when I bought it from SUSE. You have that, yes? Forrest On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:52:27 -0500, a large badger frolicked about on your keyboard, and out came:

Hi,

I am a complete newbie to Linux, and am trying to install S.O. from the Suse Linux Pro-Office CD. I try to install the so_base.rpm and it says it needs so_lang. so_en.rpm provides so_lang but requires so_base, how do I install these?

Thanks for any help,

Luke

On Friday 19 July 2002 2:52 am, Luke Donaldson wrote:

I am a complete newbie to Linux, and am trying to install S.O. from the Suse Linux Pro-Office CD. I try to install the so_base.rpm and it says it needs so_lang. so_en.rpm provides so_lang but requires so_base, how do I install these?

I did this just today, when the ProCD arrived. The YaST update crashed twice, but eventually got through the whole thing. The ProCD is a very good idea for those on limited bandwidth - I'd be happy to get them on a subscription basis if that were possible. Load up your PC and log in as your normal user. Put the ProCD in the CD-drive. Launch the YaST Control Centre, at which point you will need to enter your root password. Launch Patch CD Update. The CD should spin up, and YaST will read the patch-list off the CD. After that it will wait a couple of seconds, and then show the list of patches against what you have on your machine - installed packages will have an X against them as a tick. The Readme file suggests installing the YaST updates first separately by themselves (although the jewel case doesn't say this, so maybe it's not necessary), so I unticked everything except them and installed them first. Then I installed everything but SO and KDE, which are pretty big packages. Then I installed SO, and finally KDE. In your case, assuming you already have SO 5.2 installed as per the default, so_base and so_en should be ticked. Click Next, and after a bit of stuttering you should see the normal YaST install screen. so_base will be installed first, and then so_en, and then SuSEConfig will be run. It may be that you are trying to install them separately instead of together, but YaST is clever enough to know that they need to be installed together, and will sort that out if you just tell it to install both. HTH Kevin