On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:09:42 +1100
Colin Carter
This looks to me that Yast doesn't know about where to find new packages to install. There should be a menu item "Installation Source" or something. You should check that at least one source is configured.
Yes, and I just double checked (again) that the source was "On" by opening "Change Installation Source". It is pointing to dir:///media/dvdrecorder and I used Konqueror to view the disk to check that it was readable. (Drive light came on.) SuSE set this field automatically. Why are there so many slashes? ie why ///media and not just /media
I think this has to do with the fact that also URLs can be used like "ftp://ftp.suse.com/...", so here you have "dir" as the protocol, the usual "://" and then the location, which is /media/dvdrecorder. Thus three slashes.
I entered "neverball" (which is on the DVD under x86_64) into the search, but Yast returned not found. In fact the drive light didn't come on.
I did a search in the SuSE support database at http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/index.html The only thing I found is this http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/03/ubrueck_yast-installquelle.html Not sure if that helps.
BTW, where did you get the RPMs from you used in previous mails?
I just lifted them from the .x86_64 directory. Okay?
Ah, fine ;-) Something that popped into my mind just now: there is a command line tool named 'pin' which IIRC can be used to search for packages on you installation media. Not sure what it is capable of but I think you can for example search for the package that contains a given file. Cheers, Ingo -- "What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums I suppose." --Rincewind, Terry Pratchett "Eric"