YaST and caching

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I’m experiencing some problems with YaST. I live in Ethiopia where the internet connection is very poor. Now i need to download the kernel-source for some project, it’s 50 MB large. Now the download timed out 3 times, and everytime it starts from the beginning. Is there any way to let YaST cache the download?

thanks

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Hi
Use wget (see man wget to add options) to get the rpm from the
mirror, then just use rpm -Uhv to install and run SuSEconfig when
completed.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.11-0.1-default
up 22:49, 3 users, load average: 0.13, 0.34, 0.36
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12

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uhhmm, wat is the http location for the kernel-source package. I can’t really find it…

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found it:

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/11.0/rpm/i586/kernel-source-2.6.25.11-0.1.i586.rpm

from:

freshmeat.net: Security - SuSE: New kernel packages fix local privilege escalation

Thanks a lot!