> My problem though, was that the utility I wanted was top which is in the > package "procps" but used to be in the package "ps".
Unfortunately you get that under Linux (it's nothing SuSE-specific). Once you knew (and you did from pretty early on) that the problem was "which package do I need to install to get program X", there were/are N different ways of doing it. I'll look into again whether yast can do it. In your case, you had a huge pile of rpms sitting on your hard disk. With very minimal shell scripting (1 line) one can look through them and grep for the file you're after. Or, look through the file ARCHIVES.gz, which is on every CD/DVD and should be on the ftp server too. It contains a list of package names and other package info. Or, install package scriptutils from my website and create your own package index with susegrep, then seach for anything you like. On 8.2, this looks like this: > susegrep -f /top\$ crossfire-server-1.3.0-105.i586.rpm.ls:/usr/share/games/crossfire/maps/santo_dominion/magara/well/top fvwm-themes-0.4.2-539.noarch.rpm.ls:/usr/X11R6/share/fvwm/themes/redmond98/modules/taskbarpos/top ps-2003.3.5-10.i586.rpm.ls:/usr/bin/top xfig-3.2.3d-312.i586.rpm.ls:/usr/share/doc/packages/xfig/Examples/Libraries/Mechanical_DIN/Screws/Top No marks for guessing which packages don't contain the top you're after. > susegrep ^ps- ps-2003.3.5-10.i586.rpm cd1 suse/i586 ps-2003.3.5-10.i586.rpm dvd1 suse/i586 ps-2003.3.5-10.src.rpm dvd2 suse/src It's on CD 1 or DVD 1, the source is only on DVD 2 and not on any CD. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
