On Friday 11 March 2005 20:19, Ingo Strauch wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:57:04 +1100
Colin Carter <colincarter@exemail.com.au> wrote:
I switched off and logged in as root and run up Yast as you suggested. I put emacs (and again with xemacs) into the search box as suggested. Yast displayed, in RHS window, all modules installed, with a tick in each check box. So, as a test, I unticked the -el- module and clicked "Accept". Took some time, but it eventually un-installed this module. Then I repeated the search and got a list of the installed modules, with check boxes ticked; but no sign of any module ( eg -el- ) available for installation.
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 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 fiddle with the 'filter' but couldn't get Yast to display any 'available' software, just the software already installed. This is why I turned to rpm in the first place.
BTW, where did you get the RPMs from you used in previous mails?
I just lifted them from the .x86_64 directory. Okay?
Am I supposed to do something special to get such a list displayed? From Konqueror I have triggered a Yast installation; Yast started up, whirred a bit, but it never installed anything.
I tried this with/without DVD in drive.
To me it looks like you need to add a valid installation source. But it's strange that the DVD isn't in there/doesn't work automatically.
Cheers, Ingo
Regards, Colin