On Monday 20 February 2006 08:50, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: > Did you download and save all actual rpms in one local directory > - change YaST installation source to that directory > - select all rpm packages for installation in YaST2 software istaller > without any other settings and YaST2 took care of the rest?
Hi Terje, With all due respect, the program "rpm" is a core component of this distribution. It is *the* program that creates and manages your system's package database. It keeps track of the installed software and dependencies for you as you install, upgrade, patch and remove packages. Once you know what it is and how it works "under the hood," you will be able to install, update and remove software without too much assistance, usually, including desktop environments. * Please "man rpm" and study the software management with YaST in the Administrator's Guide. * Please also do a little research on these questions with Google. * Please also research this topic at my favorite SLE (suse-linux-e) mailing list archive: <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=suse-linux-e&r=1&w=2> Your questions have been asked and answered there many, many times. All you have to do is make the small effort to find them. * Experiment by installing, updating and removing some games and simple utilities. - Use the YaST2 module from your desktop. - Use 'rpm' from the command line (console or shell.) - Use YaST in text ("ncurses") mode, too (as root, "yast" in a console or shell.) If you follow these suggestions, you will soon be able to understand the advice and answers you've already received here on this topic. IMHO, it is time for you to "get your feet wet" now and do some actual learning. regards, Carl --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
