Bruce A. Mallett schrieb: > I then went to Yast -> Software Management. This started to download > updates from the web with no apparent way to stop it. It is now 20 > minutes later and it is still running.
This might be caused by two distinct problems. (1) You probably ended up being redirected to ftp.opensuse.org - this will never finish. (I tried downloading gimp as an individual package, which is about 8 MB, when it was not yet synced out to any other mirror and it took more than an hour to download.) (2) You have a HTTP/FTP installation source that is obviously set to "Autorefresh". Adding this by default was a very popular request which - as so frequently - claimed that 100% of the users cannot live without. You obviously can, so disable it. What YaST downloads are the repository metadata, currently about 40 MB for the factory tree. You can easily calculate how long this takes with modem speed (hours). Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
