Hello, I have SUSE 9.1 Personal and I'm having trouble getting an RPM to install. I need to get the make command and gcc installed on linux (having trouble with a modem, everyone tells me to compile the source for the driver I need, but apparently SUSE 9.1 personal doesn't have gcc or make.)
YaST will go through and detect that I have everything needed to install the packages, but after it goes through the process I get sent to a screen that lets me search for packages to install. (at this point make and gcc are not installed because it couldn't find them.) So I set it to look for the SUSE 9.1 CD, or packages on the hard drive. Then I use YaST to find the packages, tell it to install, and get an error message that it can't find the specified package.
how can I fix this?

Normaly using yast should do it. Select the development group - that will also install other dependencies (like libraries).

What error do you see?

Hmm ...
... ever tried to install make and gcc manually?

rpm -ivh packetname.rpm

Remember to install the sources, too.

casperghst42 is totally right - normally YAST should do it.
you even can try yast on command-line.
Open a shell-box (or use [Strg+F2 to change to console on display2 ;-)) and enter "yast".
--don´t forget to "su" first - or login as root --

There you can use the filter for selection (I got the german version - don't know exactly, how it´s named in an other language) and pick development.

After that, you should ave everything you need.

Make sure, that your installation-source is set right in yast. F.e. cd:///;devices=/dev/hdc

Hope it helped,

Pete

It's a very annoying problem with SuSE 9.1 Personal that it does not contain the development tools nor sources.

If you have a good internet connection, the easiest way is to define a FTP server as installation source. You can find a near mirror on

http://www.suse.com/us/private/downl...t_mirrors.html

FYI: I just installed SuSE 9.1 Pro and was shocked to see that "make" wasn't installed by default. I found this out when I went to install some stuff. I went to YaST, searched for "make", found it, installed it, all is well. Just though you'd want to know.

That's weird that make didn't come with the pro version...It's always been installed by default with mine...

EDIT: I assume that you chose to install the compiler packages, etc.

Nothing is getting them to install. Manual instillation won't work, and even though the instillation source is correct, it still won't install the packages.
I don't remember the exact error message, but it's like this: "YaST cannot find the specified package or packages, please ensure that the instillation source is correct."
I think I'm going to try the FTP instillation, or maybe just re-install SUSE 9.1
Thanks for the ideas, I'll let you know how it goes!