After the 10.1 package management disaster I quickly switched to smart. But as I'm now sick of all the other (quite ridiculous and seemingly never fixed) problems with smart (German 'umlauts' crash the program, the python gui is dysfunctional most of the time and so on), I yesterday wanted to give the native SUSE package management another chance.
(Before, rug, zypp and zen had not even been installed on my box) But this doesn't work to good, too. The KDE updater applet doesn't even connect to the zmd system - when trying to add and remove servers, the program gets stuck fetching the list :(. No installable packages are displayed. So I tried the command line interface, as described in the openSUSE wiki. rug ping gives the following result: ===================== ZMD 7.1.100, Copyright (C) 2006 Novell, Inc. Started at 10/18/2006 05:37:05 (uptime: 0 days, 0 hours, 28 minutes) RSS size: 39804 Network Connected: Yes Running on Mono 1.1.17.1 OS Target: (noarch) Module Name | Description -------------------+------------------------------------------ NetworkManager | NetworkManager support Package Management | Package Management module for Linux ZENworks Server | SOAP methods used by a ZENworks server XML-RPC interface | Export ZMD public interfaces over XML-RPC ===================== I'm quite at a loss why my OS target is noarch and not OpenSUSE factory x86_64, as it is supposed to be. I added a server: ===================== rug sa --type zypp http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse suse-factory ===================== And now I have two (????) services: ===================== Sub'd? | Name | Service -------+--------------+------------- | suse-factory | suse-factory | suse-factory | suse-factory ===================== I can subscribe to the first of these two channels (rug subscribe suse-factory). However, I cannot install packages: ===================== linux:~ # rug install kpowersave ERROR: A newer resolvable 'kpowersave' is only available in an unsubscribed catalog. ===================== What am I doing wrong here? Even after reading the articles in the wiki, I don't quite understand what is happening here... BTW, YAST seems to be able to add and remove installation sources, but as I understand, YAST doesn't use the zmd system, but libzypp directly?!? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
