On Saturday 26 April 2008 03:40:37 pm Andreas van dem Helge wrote:
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Kai Ponte
wrote: I just went to install some rpm files (for TuxPaint) and was concerned.
Every time I clicked on the rpm file (in Konqueror) I was told to install wtih yast. I dutifilyy gave my password and then had to wait several minutes while various cache files were updated before each would install.
Correct. The package management sytem in OpenSuSE is currently, and historically has been, painfully slow.
What can I do to get rid of this behavior?
Write a GUI wrapper for the "rpm" application... failing that you can open the command prompt and do:
$sudo rpm -Uhv <name-of-rpmfile>
I ended up downgrading to the cli and installing - never knew the UHV command switches.. rpm -i name-of-rpmfile.rpm seems to work.
it should install in seconds (depending on the actual RPM package size)
Also you can use SMART Package Manager (why its not the default is unknown) and it will be way faster than YaST2.
I had been using smart from 10.0 to 10.2 but figured YaST was 'fixed" - however I see it isn't actually broken just not exactly what I'd like to see. I'll load SMART again. I remember it being MUCH faster.
The current behavior is analogus to Windows running Windows Setup each time you try to install an MSI package.
Interesting! I hadn't thought of it that way. -- kai www.filesite.org || www.4thedadz.com || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org