cliff-sheridan@excite.com wrote:

> Actually I have the python program problem fixed, it turned out I already
> had python-xml on my system
>
> now I have downloaded smart and run smart update, but now I cannot run
> smart install smart-gui mainly because durring smart update my computer
> failed to completely download some of the update files (because I am using
> dial up and I "timed out")
>
> now when I try to run smart install smart-gui I get an error that says:
> error: Configuration is in read only mode.
>
> I get the same error when I try to run smart update again
>
> what do I do?
>
Try clearing Smart's cache and settings by, as root, running this command:
rm -rf /var/lib/smart

As I mentioned in another reply, if you running 10.0 (AND NOT 10.1) you do
not need Smart, YaST works fine in 10.0.