Hello,

I had an earlier thread about the need to load KDE office. I downloaded the spreadsheet package as an example, the .rpm version from the SuSe website. Somebody kindly answered me and said that you need to use the following command:

rpm -Uvh 'rpm name'

However, when I do this, I get messages about needed dependencies. One of the dependencies is KDElibs3 which is a requirement for KDE to run. I am in KDE, so this package must exist. When I download KDElibs3, then it wants a dependency also.

When I do the download, I get a question asking if I want to install with Yast. I click the install button, and the package I just downloaded is not an option. I will admit, I am a Windoze IT support person, getting my certifications. However, I am quickly becoming a Linux convert! I just need some help understanding things like this.

Your help is greatly appreciated. Please, convert me from Windows quickly. I am using Linux at home, and I really like it!!

use an alternative manager, like apt or yum, which will handle all this for you.

Actually, everything you would like to install should be on the installation medium. To my experience, Yast handles dependencies quite well. Maybe you have mixed different KDE versions with the downloaded rpm.

I recommend you to use only SuSE sources. In most cases they are sufficiently up-to-date. Have a look in the sticky thread about update source and how they are intregated into Yast.

I have heard a lot about APT, but I never found it necessary...

Hi,

Thank you for the replies. I am trying to use yast, and I did download from the SUSE site. That is the strange thing, Yast only sees what is on the original media, it seems to ignore anything else I try to install. There should not be any dependencies since KDE is already loaded, which is why I wanted to use Yast, it should have a list of what is already installed and check for the dependencies. It doesn't check though because it never tries to install the packages. I am totally confused on how to get it to work. Any specifics on using Yast for an rpm downloaded from Suse would be very helpful!!

Regards,

Randy.

Sounds strange! Are you sure you are tyrying to install i586 packages? I am asking this because the behaviour you describe fits well to src.rpm packages. They are getting installed to /usr/src/packages, but do not appear in the rpm database.

If it does not work to install the packages locally, try to add the FTP server to the Yast list of sources (Change Source of Installation) and install the package through the internet. See post#10 in the sticky thread about update sources.

YOu need to add sources to YAST so that it can recognise them. Unfortunately I'm currently not using Suse, but if you do a search on this site or on google, you will find out how to add internet sites that host updated or other suse packages to yast.