Peter, just to start with I would remove all the
duplicated identical data sources.

Then type the data source in your browser and make sure
 you get a directory/file listing in reply.

Lets us all know what happens after this
Scott

Peter Bradley wrote:
> Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley:
>> It's time I got this business of adding installation sources to YaST
>> thing sorted.
>>
>> I'd really like to install the latest versions of Mono and
>> Monodevelop, so I went to the web site, which advises SUSE uses to add
>> the installation source:
>>
>> http://go-mono.com/download-stable/suse-100-x86_64
>>
>> to YaST.
>>
>> In YaST --> Software --> Installation Source, I clicked on add -->
>> http and, in the dialog that appears added the following details:
>>
>> Server Name: go-mono.com
>> Directory on server: download-stable/suse-100-x86_64
>>
>> After clicking OK in the dialog, it went away and thought about it for
>> a while and then added 27 identical URLs to the list in the Software
>> source media dialog.  The URLs added are all listed (immediately after
>> the line specifying my installation DVD source) as:
>>
>> http://go-mono.com/download-stable/suse-100-x86_64
>>
>> (which, I guess, is what you'd expect except that I was only expecting
>> it to add a single line)
>>
>> I then turned refresh on for each of these entries and clicked Finish.
>>
>> Back in the YaST Control Centre I chose Software Management.  YaST
>> then tried to refresh each of these sources.  On every attempt, the
>> error message:
>>
>> ERROR(InstSrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media)
>>
>> was displayed.  Very user friendly, I thought :-)
>>
>> When I eventually got back to YaST, nothing from this installation
>> source appeared to be displayed (i.e. there was nothing I could see
>> that indicated that I had any version of Mono available to me except
>> 1.1.8x that I had from the installation DVD, and which I had
>> uninstalled prior to adding the new source).  The source column in
>> YaST was empty in all cases.
>>
>> Finally, just for the heck of it, I turned refresh off and tried
>> again.  The result was the same.
>>
>> Does anyone know what the undoubtedly obvious thing is that I've missed?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Peter
>>
> I hope that no-one will mind if I reply to this to bring it back up the
> list.  I suspect it got lost in the holiday traffic: so if anyone does
> have any suggestions, I'd be very pleased to hear.
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> 
> Peter
> 

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