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hello,
i think my yast is in error,
because every time i try to install any rpm,
example, if i want to install planner-0.12.1-0.pm.3.i586.rpm,
the yast will say:
packages haven't been found in the medium:
plannerplanner
and if i want to install MozillaFirefox-1.5.0.4-0.1.i586.rpm,
the yast will say:
packages haven't been found in the medium:
MozillaFirefoxMozillaFirefox
if i use the command line rpm -i, the installation goes smooth, but
i want my yast to be good again,
Distribution: openSuSE Tumbleweed-KDE, Mint 21, MX-21, Manjaro
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Umm. Do you want to install from the SuSE install media (CD or DVD), or from a downloaded file? What exactly did you do?
If it is from a downloaded file, open a terminal and type
Code:
yast -i <packet.name.1.2.3.rpm>
that will also call SuSEconfig and ldconfig. Using "rpm -i <packet.name.1.2.3.rpm>" will corrupt your system after some time if you don't call SuSEconfig and ldconfig by hand...
i can install by using "yast -i", apparently, after the rpm installed, the yast just terminated itself and returned to console, it didn't give me message.
but my yast2 is still in error, it still gives me the message "the following packages haven't been found in the medium: plannerplanner"
hello,
how about if i install any rpm with "rpm -i", or "yast -i", then i run
"ldconfig" after that. is it the same as running yast2? as we know that yast2 always run SuSEConfig after the installation.
Distribution: openSuSE Tumbleweed-KDE, Mint 21, MX-21, Manjaro
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Post #5:
SuSEconfig and ldconfig should rectify the problem for yast2, else I don't know either. (I never tried "yast2 -i <packet.1.2.3.rpm>" why don't you... ).
Post#6:
Should be the same, but SuSE does first the SuSEconfig, then ldconfig, dunno whether that is a must, though.
BTW.: I have a dedicated directory for external software which I entered as additional install source for YAST2. Why don't you do the same and move the package there...
Distribution: openSuSE Tumbleweed-KDE, Mint 21, MX-21, Manjaro
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Actually it is a partition on my box. I copied the five SuSE-CDs there and have a directory called "NonSuSE" which holds all other stuff.
You'll have to call YAST2 - install software - change or add source (or something like that, I'm not at home now) and make the new directory known to YAST2. After that you can install with YAST2 from there...
Umm. Do you want to install from the SuSE install media (CD or DVD), or from a downloaded file? What exactly did you do?
If it is from a downloaded file, open a terminal and type
Code:
yast -i <packet.name.1.2.3.rpm>
that will also call SuSEconfig and ldconfig. Using "rpm -i <packet.name.1.2.3.rpm>" will corrupt your system after some time if you don't call SuSEconfig and ldconfig by hand...
this does the exact same thing. the old yast opens and it gives me the same message as yast2. and i did everything as root
Quote:
Originally Posted by JZL240I-U
BTW.: I have a dedicated directory for external software which I entered as additional install source for YAST2. Why don't you do the same and move the package there...
for some reason i can't add any source. no matter what directory i use, i get a very lacking `cannot create the installation source'. any thoughts?
well rpm --rebuilddb didn't fix anything (except some wrong package dependencies)
will try to downgrade yast2, just for the sake of windows-like (double click ) installs
10x for the advice
Distribution: openSuSE Tumbleweed-KDE, Mint 21, MX-21, Manjaro
Posts: 4,629
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sindbad1900
...for some reason i can't add any source. no matter what directory i use, i get a very lacking `cannot create the installation source'. any thoughts?
That is lacking, in truth . Just for a test, create a directory with a rpm in it and try again, perhaps it just didn't find any installable rpms in your other shots...
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