I have an idea of what I need to do to eliminate the constant requests from yast2 when I install something to insert the DVD but I thought I should ask first.
Is there anything special (and what are the steps) to take the DVD repository and put it on my hard drive and then change yast so it stops asking for the DVD?
Thanks in advance,
Simon
On 09/07/2008 sjewins wrote:
> Is there anything special (and what are the steps) to take the DVD
> repository and put it on my hard drive and then change yast so it
> stops asking for the DVD?
If you have a reliable online connection, just enable the default repositories and disable the DVD (don’t delete the repository, just disable it)
Uwe
YaST > Software > Software repositories
Click the repositories one by one (which gives you the details inthe lower part of the window) until you find the one that starts with cd or dvd. Then uncheck the two boxes under Propreties and Finish.
Thanks to you both. Much simpler than what I was about to do. 
Glad I asked first.
One quick question in addition…
I don’t seem to be able to get a list of all installed packages on my system. Is yast used for that? If so, how and if not what utility will do that for me?
Thanks again,
Simon
YaST software management is good.
But if all you want is a list, with no description, type in a konsole or gnome-terminal:
rpm -qa --last > my-installed-rpms.txtand with a text editor open up the file “my-installed-rpms.txt”
or, … lets say you want a list of all installed packman applications: rpm -qa --qf '%{VENDOR} %{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}
'|grep packman