Hi,
I'm using SLES12sp5. I want to install python3-psutil and have encountered a problem in autoyast.

When I manually execute the zypper command at the prompt "zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys install python3-psutil", I would get the following (truncated) output, with options to select either 1/2/c. If I include the exact same command (with additional -n option) in the auto install xml config file, it would just auto select "c" and skip this zypper install command and move on to the next command I have in my xml file.


So, I would like to find out how should I construct my command in the xml file so that the auto installation process knows my pre-select option (either 1 or 2) for that particular package, and installs it without any user interaction. My codes are all in the init-script section.

Appreciate all the helps I can get here. TIA.

Have you tried zypper with --force-resolution? What option does it choose then?

Thanks for replying. I still get the same behavior after adding --force-resolution. I also tried echoing solution "2", but looks like zypper ignores the echo.

Have you actually looked at the output of what's going on? You're trying to install a package that has dependencies that are not present in your system. And, it appears that the package's requirements are not "known" by the system, so it can't offer the option to install the required dependencies. You need to fix that FIRST.

THEN, read up on how to set zypper to handle dependencies in the future. Here's the man page for it: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Zypper_manual_(plain)

Thanks Ember.
I know I do not need that dependencies. The question here is how to automate it, not to resolve dependencies.

Given that the link I attempted to post is broken (the closing paren is shown, but doesn't come through in the link), I would presume you didn't actually read up on zypper itself.

Ignoring dependencies is not wise as it will likely come back to cause you problems in the future.

If you insist on ignoring it, the correct syntax would be:

Correct link to the page I was trying to reference is: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Zypper_manual_(plain)

Actually I did look up and read the zypper man page, before I posted this question.

I tried --force option before. It would just select "c" when I run it.

For some packages I want to be able to select Solution 1. Like the example below, I want to exclude perl-HTML-TableExtract-2.11-7.8.noarch, perl-HTML-TokeParser-Simple-3.16-3.10.noarch when I install perl. So it's still coming back to the same problem- How I can pre-select the solutions.

The current way of doing it is that I would just simply exclude those zypper cmds that require interaction and run them manually post OS installation. But the process would be so much simpler if this can be automated.

You are trying to create a way to work around required packages - zypper provides only built-in means to work around recommended ones. Things like --force-resolution are intended to tell zypper to find a fix for a problem if one exists, but it defaults to dropping out to interactive mode when it can't.

You've stated that you 'know' you don't need the indicated required package. Why not?

Hi Ember1205,
The computer I'm installing is intended to be a simple compute server. The reason I want only python3-psutil is because of other another tool "terminator". I can add this manually and the tool would just work fine. I don't need the dependencies pkgs for anything else.
I just want to see if there's possibility of adding this into auto config. Looks like there isn't one, at least for this OS version I guess.
Thanks for all your responses so far.