I'd like to install hostap under suse 10.1 but, as root, yum install hostap yields nothing. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I dl'd the tarballs from hostap's homepage but I wanted to know if I could install with yum instead. I googled up a link to Novell that said hostap was on dvd1. I've got my installation sources pointed to official suse servers and 10.1 installation media (on suse's mirrors) as well as pacman and some other third party source servers. I really like 10.1, but configuring all these different installation sources seems to be a bit of a PITA. I guess I just wish there were more apps available from the official suse mirrors, rather than having to use other third-party hosts. Maybe there's a better way of accessing source files for different apps that I'm not aware of. I read an article and followed its instructions to set my installations sources to a variety of different servers, but I still have a lot of trouble updating and finding apps that I want. I might just go back to Gentoo on my notebook, I am really missing portage here. But any advice would be really appreciated. Thanks, Steven
On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:48, Steven G Wagner wrote:
I'd like to install hostap under suse 10.1 but... <snip>
Steven You can download and/or install the rpm package from here (mind the word wrap): ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/suse/i586/ The package name is 'hostap-0.4.7-16.i586.rpm' If you navigate there using Konqueror, click on the rpm and, after it's opened, Konqueror will offer you an 'Install with YaST' button. This is probably the easiest installation method to describe in the shortest number of words. ;-) Of course, there are more ways to accomplish this, particularly faster and easier ways at the commandline, but I'm short on time. Good luck! Carl
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