I disagree.
I've already been through that option and it is used
for installing package PATCHES. Furthermore, in the
choice for source, you are given options for: ftp,
source medium (greyed out), directory, floppy.
Let's see, I have 7.1 distro CDs I want to install
from.
Let's see, CD is not ftp,
CD is not directory,
CD is not floppy,
CD *might* be source medium BUT IT IS
GREYED OUT
Gee, no choices left.
No, I don't think it is intuitive.
If anybody has the answer how to search and install
a particular package off the distro CDs please let
me know.
Thanks,
Babu
--- John W Higgins
Under YAST it's extraordinarily intuitive to do.
Goto package management - sounds perfectly logical to me.
Then lets see what we have available
Load configuration - Not a good choice Save configuration - Got nothing to save Change/create configuration - we are looking for something specific Package Information - DING DING DING - we've got a possible winner - and look - it's actually the right choice!!!!! Install Packages - another possibility Delete Packages - NOPE
Now even if one takes a view that the term "Package Information" might be slightly non-intuitive - you've only got 6 choices at hand - one should really be able to look thru 6 different choices and find the correct one even if they are labeled A,B,C,D,E and F.
John W Higgins john@wishdev.com
-----Original Message----- From: babu walad [mailto:vyav@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 5:12 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] search / select package to load with Yast/Yast2
Folks,
I know I did this once, but I just cannot remember how I stumbled on this before. How do I tell yast/yast2 what specific package I want to install on an existing installation? How can I search for a given package name and get a list of matches and pick the one(s) I want to install?
I sure is NOT intuitive how to do this with Yast/Yast2!
Thanks for your help.
Babu
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