[opensuse] Adding an installation source to YaST (SUSE 10.0 AMD64 x 2)
It's time I got this business of adding installation sources to YaST thing sorted. I'd really like to install the latest versions of Mono and Monodevelop, so I went to the web site, which advises SUSE uses to add the installation source: http://go-mono.com/download-stable/suse-100-x86_64 to YaST. In YaST --> Software --> Installation Source, I clicked on add --> http and, in the dialog that appears added the following details: Server Name: go-mono.com Directory on server: download-stable/suse-100-x86_64 After clicking OK in the dialog, it went away and thought about it for a while and then added 27 identical URLs to the list in the Software source media dialog. The URLs added are all listed (immediately after the line specifying my installation DVD source) as: http://go-mono.com/download-stable/suse-100-x86_64 (which, I guess, is what you'd expect except that I was only expecting it to add a single line) I then turned refresh on for each of these entries and clicked Finish. Back in the YaST Control Centre I chose Software Management. YaST then tried to refresh each of these sources. On every attempt, the error message: ERROR(InstSrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media) was displayed. Very user friendly, I thought :-) When I eventually got back to YaST, nothing from this installation source appeared to be displayed (i.e. there was nothing I could see that indicated that I had any version of Mono available to me except 1.1.8x that I had from the installation DVD, and which I had uninstalled prior to adding the new source). The source column in YaST was empty in all cases. Finally, just for the heck of it, I turned refresh off and tried again. The result was the same. Does anyone know what the undoubtedly obvious thing is that I've missed? Thanks, Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley:
It's time I got this business of adding installation sources to YaST thing sorted.
I'd really like to install the latest versions of Mono and Monodevelop, so I went to the web site, which advises SUSE uses to add the installation source:
http://go-mono.com/download-stable/suse-100-x86_64
to YaST.
In YaST --> Software --> Installation Source, I clicked on add --> http and, in the dialog that appears added the following details:
Server Name: go-mono.com Directory on server: download-stable/suse-100-x86_64
After clicking OK in the dialog, it went away and thought about it for a while and then added 27 identical URLs to the list in the Software source media dialog. The URLs added are all listed (immediately after the line specifying my installation DVD source) as:
http://go-mono.com/download-stable/suse-100-x86_64
(which, I guess, is what you'd expect except that I was only expecting it to add a single line)
I then turned refresh on for each of these entries and clicked Finish.
Back in the YaST Control Centre I chose Software Management. YaST then tried to refresh each of these sources. On every attempt, the error message:
ERROR(InstSrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media)
was displayed. Very user friendly, I thought :-)
When I eventually got back to YaST, nothing from this installation source appeared to be displayed (i.e. there was nothing I could see that indicated that I had any version of Mono available to me except 1.1.8x that I had from the installation DVD, and which I had uninstalled prior to adding the new source). The source column in YaST was empty in all cases.
Finally, just for the heck of it, I turned refresh off and tried again. The result was the same.
Does anyone know what the undoubtedly obvious thing is that I've missed?
Thanks,
Peter
I hope that no-one will mind if I reply to this to bring it back up the list. I suspect it got lost in the holiday traffic: so if anyone does have any suggestions, I'd be very pleased to hear. Many thanks. Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Peter, just to start with I would remove all the duplicated identical data sources. Then type the data source in your browser and make sure you get a directory/file listing in reply. Lets us all know what happens after this Scott Peter Bradley wrote:
Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley:
It's time I got this business of adding installation sources to YaST thing sorted.
I'd really like to install the latest versions of Mono and Monodevelop, so I went to the web site, which advises SUSE uses to add the installation source:
http://go-mono.com/download-stable/suse-100-x86_64
to YaST.
In YaST --> Software --> Installation Source, I clicked on add --> http and, in the dialog that appears added the following details:
Server Name: go-mono.com Directory on server: download-stable/suse-100-x86_64
After clicking OK in the dialog, it went away and thought about it for a while and then added 27 identical URLs to the list in the Software source media dialog. The URLs added are all listed (immediately after the line specifying my installation DVD source) as:
http://go-mono.com/download-stable/suse-100-x86_64
(which, I guess, is what you'd expect except that I was only expecting it to add a single line)
I then turned refresh on for each of these entries and clicked Finish.
Back in the YaST Control Centre I chose Software Management. YaST then tried to refresh each of these sources. On every attempt, the error message:
ERROR(InstSrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media)
was displayed. Very user friendly, I thought :-)
When I eventually got back to YaST, nothing from this installation source appeared to be displayed (i.e. there was nothing I could see that indicated that I had any version of Mono available to me except 1.1.8x that I had from the installation DVD, and which I had uninstalled prior to adding the new source). The source column in YaST was empty in all cases.
Finally, just for the heck of it, I turned refresh off and tried again. The result was the same.
Does anyone know what the undoubtedly obvious thing is that I've missed?
Thanks,
Peter
I hope that no-one will mind if I reply to this to bring it back up the list. I suspect it got lost in the holiday traffic: so if anyone does have any suggestions, I'd be very pleased to hear.
Many thanks.
Peter
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Peter, just to start with I would remove all the duplicated identical data sources.
Then type the data source in your browser and make sure you get a directory/file listing in reply.
Lets us all know what happens after this Scott
Hi Scott, Thanks a lot for the reply. I've removed the urls from YaST. I'd already done that, in fact, since they obviously weren't doing any good. Strangely, the given url points to the download page on the go-mono website. Here's what the page says: <quote> This distro supports installing packages via YaST. Add the following installation source to YaST: * http://go-mono.com/download-stable/suse-100-x86_64 For assistance with using repositories and installing packages with YaST, visit this link: [1] <http://en.opensuse.org/Add_Package_Repositories_to_YaST> </quote> In other words, the url appears to be self-referential. Can that be right? If it is a directory listing, it's a very nicely formatted one! The assistance link is just a pointer to a wiki page about adding references to YaST: but it talks about things like Zypper, which - as far as I can see - is not available for 10.0 Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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