I try to install yum to solve other installation problems. But I’m not succeded to install it (lack of itself) using yast for installation.
The problem is that when I try to start yum installation by yast from the distributive DVD using GUI, I get a message to insert the disk even it’s already in the disk drive (may be some dependencies…). The message contains a line to specify location but I’ve tryed to enter the disk mount point but yast doesn’t accept it. Tell me please what do I need to enter in this line for the successful installation or may be where can I mount the disk to make available its default for yast.
But if it’s so are there some solutions for OpenSuse how I can resolve packages dependencies automatically when I install some package that isn’t contained by OpenSuse disk?
You should not install packages from other distros, period. Not even from other releases of openSUSE. It will get you into trouble.
If you need a piece of software, try looking in software.opensuse.org/search first. There are also some other places to look, others know those better than I do and will mention them. If you fail to find it, post its name here and forum members will help you.
Ilya81 wrote:
> I try to install yum to solve other installation problems.
YaST is the yum replacement…use it, instead…
if you have a problem with YaST, ask and we can help…
or, we can tell you where to log a bug to get it fixed…
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As I’ve understand zypper can be used instead of yum. But tell me please what URL suites for automatic packages downloading? Is it the same one software.opensuse.org: Search Results or some other one?
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> As I’ve understand zypper can be used instead of yum. But tell me please
> what URL suites for automatic packages downloading? Is it the same one
> ‘software.opensuse.org: Search Results’
> (http://software.opensuse.org/search) or some other one?
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to allow zypper to pull in packages automatically, these packages have to
be in repos zypper knows about. if they’re not included in the standard
repos that (usually) come at installation, you’ll have to enable
additional ones. this takes a little knowledge, because if you try to mix
incompatible repos, you’ll mess up your system.
if you want help, you’ll have to show which repos are already enabled on
your system (output of “zypper lr -d” as root), and what exactly you want
to install.
unfortunately i don’t have the link to the wiki page that explains this
handy (and my internet connection is acting up); i’m sure somebody else
can supply that for you if google doesn’t.