Hi list, I haven't used "repos", zypper, yum, etc. too much so please bear with me if these are basic questions.
I'm trying to install a software package onto a SLES 11 virtual machine. One option is a tar file, but this software also has a "repository" compatible with yum and zypper on the Internet. So it would be simple to do a "zypper install <package>". However, that package wants to pull in other RPMs that I believe are included with SLES 11. Because I have not added the base SLES 11 as a repository, zypper cannot find them. So I'd like to do the Add Repository command "zypper ar <SLES11>". But the SLES ISOs don't seem to have a prebuilt repository. So I'd like to do a "createrepo <SLES11>". But I can't seem to find createrepo in SLES 11. So, two questions: 1) How do I create a repo for SLES 11? (it would be nice if I could just create it on the NFS server and export that to all Linuxes) 2) Could I also be using "yum" instead of "zypper" so that I could use the same tool that RHEL uses? Thanks. "Mike MacIsaac" <[email protected]> (845) 433-7061 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
