I'm trying to install a frewall program called Mason. It requires a file called samlib, which was nowhere to be found on my SuSE 9.1 Pro cds. So I shopped around online and found the samlib-0.3-0.noarch.rpm. I use Konqueror for file browsing in KDE 3.2. I clicked on the rpm and it gave me the option of installing through YaST, which is how I've been taught to install programs. So I click that button, and it brings up a generic YaST screen (done in root of course), but now when I search for samlib it can find it (as long as this is how I brought up YaST). I select it, select Autocheck for dependencies, and Accept. It says "Package samlib-0.3-0.noarch was not found on the medium" and gives me buttons to Abort, Retry (which doesn't work), or Ignore. I've tried downloading the file from other sites, to no avail. I'd really like to install Mason, which means I'd really like to install samlib. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks for any help.

Kory

I didn't understand if you could install the lib or not. You can try again using kpackage which is as good as yast2. Right click on the rpm and choose "kpackage". Then choose install, and install again.

In the console you can try

rpm -q samlib

to query rpm for this package. And

whereis samlib

will give you some answers where the lib is located.
You can also try to install Mason, assuming the install of samlib was succeeded. If it wasn't, yast2 will output this, so we will know.

Post again if you get stuck.