How to manually reinstall YaST in Suse.9.1

ibex · 06-02-2006, 03:54 AM

Hello there, thank you for checking this.
My situation is somehow critical since my YaST looks broken
in 9.1 and the iso.CD does not offer but only a new installation
mode. So, I am looking to find out how to reinstall YAST manually
(with an rpm or from source, I don't know really).

I looked at different places such as this updating site
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.1/
and I can see many fixes but not the main package.

Any advice or link to further info please?

ibex

onjoo · 06-02-2006, 05:08 AM

Hmm... no main package?
This is what atleast I can see at
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.1/suse/i586/

yast2-2.9.60-5.i586.rpm
yast2-bootloader-2.9.22-1.i586.rpm
yast2-control-center-2.9.11-3.i586.rpm
yast2-core-2.9.79-3.i586.rpm
yast2-core-devel-2.9.79-3.i586.rpm
yast2-country-2.9.19-9.i586.rpm
yast2-debugger-2.9.2-11.i586.rpm
yast2-devel-2.9.60-5.i586.rpm
yast2-ldap-2.9.10-10.i586.rpm
yast2-mouse-2.9.10-10.i586.rpm
yast2-ncurses-2.9.20-3.i586.rpm
yast2-network-2.9.32-1.i586.rpm
yast2-nis-client-2.9.15-11.i586.rpm
yast2-online-update-2.9.11-3.i586.rpm
yast2-packagemanager-2.9.37-0.i586.rpm
yast2-packagemanager-devel-2.9.37-0.i586.rpm
yast2-packager-2.9.43-3.i586.rpm
yast2-pam-2.9.10-9.i586.rpm
yast2-perl-bindings-2.9.25-8.i586.rpm
yast2-printer-2.9.23-1.i586.rpm
yast2-profile-manager-2.9.7-11.i586.rpm
yast2-qt-2.9.21-0.i586.rpm
yast2-slp-2.9.9-2.i586.rpm
yast2-sound-2.9.19-4.i586.rpm
yast2-storage-2.9.37-0.i586.rpm
yast2-transfer-2.9.2-10.i586.rpm
yast2-tune-2.9.20-10.i586.rpm
yast2-update-2.9.23-2.i586.rpm
yast2-users-2.9.27-1.i586.rpm
yast2-x11-2.9.9-10.i586.rpm
yast2-xml-2.9.8-10.i586.rpm

As you can see there is really many yast-modules to be downloaded.

But since 9.1 is so old that it doesn't have support anymore I would recommend updating to a newer version. Suse 9.3 or Suse 10.0 maybe.

ibex · 06-02-2006, 05:32 AM

OUaou, I didn't know that something like this is possible.
I run SUSE 10.1 only on my desktop and I am very happy with it
(found it heavy for my laptop and put the 9.1 personal) . How would
you do this kind of YaST upgrade manually?

Should I download and install them one by one and in what order?
Alternatively, would it work to use my 10.1 CD?

Thanks a lot

onjoo · 06-02-2006, 06:47 AM

For distro upgrade there are two options:

Unsafe option: Add a internet installation repository to yast/smart/yum/whatever package manager in use and update every package available

Safer option : Boot with suse 10.1 cd , start installation. The cd will ask do you want to do new installation or upgrade disto.

ibex · 06-02-2006, 07:57 AM

I am sorry Onjo - it seems I was not clear.
I wrote I found 10.1 "heavy for my laptop".
What I am interested in is to upgrade or
at least reinstall YaST.

Also, I wrote that my YaST is broken.
Therefore how could I ever use it to install
any packages? This is what I'm trying to do:

A manual upgrade or reinstallation of YaST.

onjoo · 06-02-2006, 08:35 AM

This is just a theoritical solution but it could work. Too tired to think of better way...

First lets download the yast2-packages.

Code:

mkdir yast
cd yast
wget ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.1/suse/i586/yast2*.rpm

then lets reinstall the packages
with ROOT

Code:

rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm

abisko00 · 06-02-2006, 09:12 AM

Try the system repair first:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:YaST_System_Repair
There's a bug in 9.1 that doesn't show the repair option. But it's there:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Selection....1_Personal%29

ibex · 06-03-2006, 06:24 AM

In the end I did what Onjoo suggested first as "safer option".
It worked great, yet I now run 10.1. I did not put all the packages
so my installation is minimal and light as I want it.

Many thanks to all of you,
Ibex.