A long, long time ago, when it used to work, I was able to add locations of catalogues into the YAST "Installation Source"

For example,

http://download.opensuse.org/distrib...ss-inst-source

What is the equivalent function for SMART?


How is it done?http://download.opensuse.org/distrib...ss-inst-source

Thanks

smart channel --add URL
smart update

Hi & thanks.

That's what I thought. It goes through the motions when I add a URL and the CLI tells me all is well. But I don't think the 'channel' is added because when I do a 'smart update' only the one channel is reported (packman).

regards

Thanks

I realise that I should probably be looking to a SMART forum for this, but I note that there is only ever one entry in

/var/lib/smart/channels

and that is "Packman%http:__packman.unixheads.com_suse_10"

I just don't seem to be able to edit or add new channels.

there are no permission restrictions for su or root on /var/lib/smart/channels/ AFAIK

Thnaks

Well, I don't have a SUSE system at home to test it, but last time I used the smart package from "guru" it came with all:
* SUSE security updates
* SUSE normal updates
* SUSE
* Packman
* Guru
...in default.

Smart packages from Guru:
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-...=/System/smart

PS: to look for installed sources:
smart channel --show

PS PS: Don't you have "/etc/smart" ?

Maybe something went goofy as I have a bunch of channels without even trying.
I took notes from http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/

Run the command: rpm -qa | grep rpm-python to see if the package is installed. If it is not installed, as root user, run this command to install the rpm-python package from Factory:
Get the smart package from one of these sites:
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-...t=System/smart
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/su.../System/smart/
http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/suser-guru/.../System/smart/

Pass that to rpm -ivh in a root shell, like this:
smart update
smart install smart-gui


If you also want to enable e.g. the supplementary KDE repository, do this:
smart channel --enable suse-kde

smart update suse-kde

At any rate, it's a heck of lot faster than yast and it doesn't keep up with the crap about packman not having a valid signature or similar like yast does.

Smart GUI gives you an easy way to add Channels.

Go to Edit menu, click Channels, click the NEW button.

Doesn't work for me- see my post above. /var/lib/smart/channels is never updated, whether I use CLI or the GUI.

Thanks

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...eply&p=2282481

Read the howto here http://wiki.suselinuxsupport.de/wikk...PackageManager

Also http://labix.org/smart/howto

No need. I changed to Ubuntu.


regards

The howto I posted is not SUSE specific, but also covers Fedorah, Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva and Slackware.