On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 12:18, InfoHelp wrote: > Jeff Fuller wrote: > > > InfoHelp wrote: > > > >> Still here, Jeff?!.. > > > Pardon my wry sense of :-) please Jeff, & occasional weariness. > > >> Jeff Fuller wrote: > >> > >>> Yup! broke it twice and reinstalled twice to get it back. Now wont > >>> try to update till i find out whats up. Is there another way to get > >>> updates without useing YaST? > >> > >> > >> Yes. Find someone who has downloaded them already, & ask if they can > >> be burnt to disk for you. > > > This was somewhat misleading, in that YaST is still the simple interface > for getting the updates from the C/DVD. > > Sans YaST, our list gurus might wish to expand on how the updates are to > be coordinated - is it RPM? & where on the filesystem do the downloaded > updates get put / live?
just leaving the files on the cdrom and using rpm should install them ok, although the dependency issues will be annoying. IIRC yast runs on the command line too, maybe Jeff should try that. > > I still think we need to see YaST functional 4 u, hence the following Q's: > > >> Have you looked up WellyLUG yet? A LUG closer to home? Do they > >> respond to you? > >> > >> - Rik > > > > Thanks for your help Rik, Have subscribed to WellyLug but have not > > posted yet. > > Cheers jeff > > By you telling us, there is no need for us to trawl their archives for > the answers - > > How much SuSE support is there on WellyLug? Aren't you nearer to the > Waikato LUG, or Auckland? .. > > The answers decide where you should take your PC - or have a LUGie visit > you from - to get YaST working properly. > > This may still prove necessary, pre-updates. Or an update may be the key > to fixing YaST, on your hardware. > > Glad to see you're getting good support, > > Rik >
