Is there either a Netscape update tarball, or patch tarball available, instead of RPM? The Kpackage app. in 6.4 is nonfunctional (or at least it is for me), and also there are those of us who know better than to load up the /opt dir with applications and have installed Netscape elsewhere. If it's available, I'd like the address. Thanks, Fred -- ----/ / _ Fred A. Miller ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Systems Administrator --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / Cornell Univ. Press Services -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ fm@cupserv.org -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
It is nonfunctional for me as well. Download the rpm file and install it using YAST. YAST isn't as convenient as kpackage; but it still beats dealing with tarballs. 1. Download the rpm you wish to install. Remember where you put it. 2. Login as root and start YAST. 3. Select 'Choose/Install packages'. 4. Select 'Install packages'. 5. You should now see the install window. It is probably, mostly empty. Make sure that 'Source: (none)' is highlighted and press <enter>. 6. You can now select a source for your packages. The options should include 'Directory', 'FTP', 'Source medium', and 'Floppy'. 7. Select 'Directory' and enter the path to the rpm you wish to install and press <enter>. 8. You should now be able to select the rpm for installation. The on-screen instructions should suffice from here. Best of Luck, Andrew L. Gould "Fred A. Miller" wrote:
Is there either a Netscape update tarball, or patch tarball available, instead of RPM? The Kpackage app. in 6.4 is nonfunctional (or at least it is for me), and also there are those of us who know better than to load up the /opt dir with applications and have installed Netscape elsewhere. If it's available, I'd like the address.
Thanks,
Fred
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Can you explain the difference between
rpm -i
It is nonfunctional for me as well. Download the rpm file and install it using YAST. YAST isn't as convenient as kpackage; but it still beats dealing with tarballs.
1. Download the rpm you wish to install. Remember where you put it. 2. Login as root and start YAST. 3. Select 'Choose/Install packages'. 4. Select 'Install packages'. 5. You should now see the install window. It is probably, mostly empty. Make sure that 'Source: (none)' is highlighted and press <enter>. 6. You can now select a source for your packages. The options should include 'Directory', 'FTP', 'Source medium', and 'Floppy'. 7. Select 'Directory' and enter the path to the rpm you wish to install and press <enter>. 8. You should now be able to select the rpm for installation. The on-screen instructions should suffice from here.
Best of Luck,
Andrew L. Gould
"Fred A. Miller" wrote:
Is there either a Netscape update tarball, or patch tarball available, instead of RPM? The Kpackage app. in 6.4 is nonfunctional (or at least it is for me), and also there are those of us who know better than to load up the /opt dir with applications and have installed Netscape elsewhere. If it's available, I'd like the address.
Thanks,
Fred
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Stuart Hall wrote:
Can you explain the difference between
rpm -i
and using Yast to install the rpm? Or are we saying here that rpm -i, or rpm -U doesn't work?
My experience is that YaST will use the '--force' or '--nodeps' option when it calls rpm internally. In the past, it went right ahead and installed RPMs that I couldn't install manually using plain 'rpm -i' or 'rpm -U'. I'm not sure if it still does it, though. The advantage of using YaST is that it will call the SuSEconfig script after installing the packages. If you use rpm from the command line, you have to execute SuSEconfig also. In any case, I mostly install update RPMs from SuSE, I don't install RPMs from othe places. Those are mostly built for redhat systems or done incompetently, and they may screw your installation. -- Rafael Herrera Laboratory for Computational Neuroscience University of Pittsburgh http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~raffo -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
I use the command line rpm without any problems. Type 'man rpm' for gobs of info. To install a package, simply do (as root), rpm -i <pkgname> To see a list of those files in the package, and where they went, rpm -ql netscape for example. -- Ryan On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
It is nonfunctional for me as well. Download the rpm file and install it using YAST. YAST isn't as convenient as kpackage; but it still beats dealing with tarballs.
1. Download the rpm you wish to install. Remember where you put it. 2. Login as root and start YAST. 3. Select 'Choose/Install packages'. 4. Select 'Install packages'. 5. You should now see the install window. It is probably, mostly empty. Make sure that 'Source: (none)' is highlighted and press <enter>. 6. You can now select a source for your packages. The options should include 'Directory', 'FTP', 'Source medium', and 'Floppy'. 7. Select 'Directory' and enter the path to the rpm you wish to install and press <enter>. 8. You should now be able to select the rpm for installation. The on-screen instructions should suffice from here.
Best of Luck,
Andrew L. Gould
"Fred A. Miller" wrote:
Is there either a Netscape update tarball, or patch tarball available, instead of RPM? The Kpackage app. in 6.4 is nonfunctional (or at least it is for me), and also there are those of us who know better than to load up the /opt dir with applications and have installed Netscape elsewhere. If it's available, I'd like the address.
Thanks,
Fred
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Fred A. Miller wrote: The Kpackage app. in 6.4 is nonfunctional (or at least
it is for me). Broken here as well. RPM database is intact, but kpackage doesn't seem to be able to find it. Any ideas on how to fix?
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Jim Bruer wrote:
Broken here as well. RPM database is intact, but kpackage doesn't seem to be able to find it. Any ideas on how to fix? The kpackage that comes with SuSE 6.4 is bad. The recently added link http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/updates/64_update.html does not include the fixed kpackage but ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse_update/6.4/kpa1/ does have the update.
SuSE, please add the kpackage update to the 6.4 updates page and please add this problem to the support database. Damon Register -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
"Fred A. Miller" wrote: <snip>
it is for me), and also there are those of us who know better than to load up the /opt dir with applications and have installed Netscape
What purpose you think should /opt be used for, if not to install the applications? -- Nadeem :) http://www.nadmm.com/ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Is there either a Netscape update tarball, or patch tarball available, instead of RPM? The Kpackage app. in 6.4 is nonfunctional (or at least it is for me), and also there are those of us who know better than to load up the /opt dir with applications and have installed Netscape elsewhere. If it's available, I'd like the address.
Thanks,
Fred
three steps for sucess: #1 install SuSE #2 mv /opt/* /usr/local/ #3 rm -r /opt; ln -s /usr/local /opt or something like that..:) -- ======================================================================== Rocky McGaugh Atipa Linux Solutions Product Development www.atipa.com rocky@smluc.org rmcgaugh@atipa.com ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
This would be like mounting a picture upside down and then standing upside down to view it. Isn't it? Rocky McGaugh wrote:
three steps for sucess:
#1 install SuSE #2 mv /opt/* /usr/local/ #3 rm -r /opt; ln -s /usr/local /opt
or something like that..:)
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Nadeem Hasan wrote: nh> This would be like mounting a picture upside down and nh> then standing upside down to view it. Isn't it? nh> Not really, I came from slackware and didn't understand the purpose of the /opt directory so I did exactly whats shown below. Even today, while I understand the purpose of the /opt directory, I still do it as I would prefer to have all those packages as well as my installed packages (source compiled packages) in /usr/local, that and the fact that I have a seperate partition for it all. All depends on what your comfortable with I guess :) nh> Rocky McGaugh wrote: nh> > nh> > nh> > three steps for sucess: nh> > nh> > #1 install SuSE nh> > #2 mv /opt/* /usr/local/ nh> > #3 rm -r /opt; ln -s /usr/local /opt nh> > nh> > or something like that..:) nh> > nh> -- nh> Nadeem :) nh> http://www.nadmm.com/ nh> nh> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v6.3+ - Kernel 2.2.14 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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