YAST installation

littlewenwen · 07-24-2007, 12:52 AM

Dear all

I donloaded the program from internet in .rpm file format. I am trying to use YAST to install it (I have had a hard time to install it in "rpm" way). How to do that? i.e., how to introduce this program to YAST?

puntjuh · 07-24-2007, 03:21 AM

You can Right Click the rpm file & Go To Actions > Install with YaST. This will install the RPM file using YaST.

riba43 · 07-24-2007, 05:11 AM

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Originally Posted by littlewenwen

Dear all

I donloaded the program from internet in .rpm file format. I am trying to use YAST to install it (I have had a hard time to install it in "rpm" way). How to do that? i.e., how to introduce this program to YAST?

Sometimes you can not install it with YAST. Try terminal window, then as su (super user) write

rpm -Uhv <package name>.rpm.

You can use a part of the package name followed by *.rpm.

littlewenwen · 07-24-2007, 11:10 AM

thank you. however, neither of them is working.

what i want to install is java-1.6. the current one on my suse is java 1.4. each time after i install the java1.6, i would check YAST, and each time i got the same result: java 1.6 (shown as "jre" in YAST) not installed?! and when i try to verify the installation, it still says i am using the older 1.4.2.

anyone had similar experience?

riba43 · 07-24-2007, 02:02 PM

Maybe this will help:
If you want to install 1.6:
(1) Download and install rpm from java.sun.com
(2) Download and install jpackage
jpackage-utils-1.7.3-1jpp.noarch.rpm
(3) Download and install compatibility layer for 1.6
java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0-1jpp.i586.rpm
(4) As root
Type update-alternatives --config java (for switching jre to 1.6)
Type update-alternatives --config javac (for switching jdk to 1.6)