Yast is driving me nuts!

brianthegreat · 10-26-2005, 11:50 AM

Ok, so I hear you can add sources to yast! Does it ever work??

I went here:
thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42/

Added the new sources for Yast and I get nothing but errors and yes I'm making sure that I specify wether the mirror is FTP or HTTP.

I have sound working on Suse. I just want to play MP3s!!!!

Mega Man X · 10-26-2005, 11:53 AM

Hi!

See if this helps:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...89#post1087289

Regards!

brianthegreat · 10-26-2005, 01:30 PM

Suse is a total dog turd! I'm going back to Fedora. Yast is just a total pain in the ass. I got it to work but APT and YUM run circles around Yast.

Mega Man X · 10-26-2005, 01:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by brianthegreat
Suse is a total dog turd! I'm going back to Fedora. Yast is just a total pain in the ass. I got it to work but APT and YUM run circles around Yast.

Mega Man X · 10-26-2005, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by brianthegreat
Suse is a total dog turd! I'm going back to Fedora. Yast is just a total pain in the ass. I got it to work but APT and YUM run circles around Yast.

You're welcome btw. Oh, and you can install apt in SuSE, but I can see it's way beyond your skills...

reddazz · 10-26-2005, 02:55 PM

Instead of giving up so easily can you post the exact errors that you are getting.

Jongi · 10-26-2005, 04:06 PM

Well trying out FC4 and I have to say that SUSE seems to piss all over it. My ethernet card is not picked up by FC4, yet SUSE did without me having to configure a thing. Also SUSE picked up my SB 7.1 Live! 24 bit no problems. FC4 has not. SUSE has picked up NTFS no issues. Not the same for FC4.

Try

HTTP:
thejemreport.com

Directory:
mambo/content/view/178/42/

Jongi · 10-26-2005, 04:10 PM

Furthermore, is that site actually a repository?

onjoo · 10-27-2005, 04:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jongi
Furthermore, is that site actually a repository?

Nope, it isn't. But it has the info about adding repositories and links to such sites as packman.

FOrget adding yast repos through gui. IT JUST SUCKS!
THE easy way :

open konsole or shell or whatever..

switch to superuser
code "su" and type your root password

add site to yast
code " installation_sources -a http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/10.0/ "

piece of cake

Jongi · 10-27-2005, 06:36 AM

Adding repositories through yast is very simple tbh.

badbunny · 10-27-2005, 07:51 AM

Can't really imagine what would be difficult about it. The important thing is to watch the slash, there is no " / " in the end of the site's address, nor in the beginning of the path. So, www.site.com/dir/subdir would be

www.site.com
dir/subdir

muddywaters · 10-27-2005, 08:14 AM

Jongie wrote

"Well trying out FC4 and I have to say that SUSE seems to piss all over it"

Having tried FC2 I suspect this is true. I only hope the Fedora users don't read this forum

RedShirt · 10-27-2005, 08:17 AM

While I would try to be more...diplomatic about it... I found of the 12 distros I tried over the past year, including Redhat and Fedora Core 3 and 4, I really disliked some of them, including FC3 and 4. SuSE made me much happier, for my needs.

sb300869 · 10-27-2005, 09:13 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by brianthegreat
Suse is a total dog turd! I'm going back to Fedora. Yast is just a total pain in the ass. I got it to work but APT and YUM run circles around Yast.

Sorry to hear you having problems. I have been using Fedore/Ubuntu in the past. I am a newbie with Suse 10 and have to say I am well impressed with this distro, much better and more user friendly compare with fedora/Ubuntu. Must admit being a newbie, still have a long way to go before becoming a linux expert.

KimVette · 10-29-2005, 10:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jongi
Well trying out FC4 and I have to say that SUSE seems to piss all over it.

I would like to second and third that statement. FC4 seems to choke on booting from the DVD on both i915GM and i945 chipsets.