"Paul W. Abrahams" wrote:
>
> Following Lenz's advice, I decided to replace my existing version of
> Yast (from SuSE 5.3) with a newer version. The existing version is
> 0.97.4. I downloaded the .rpm file for the newest Yast and then
> started up the old one, specifying "Installation adjustments" and then
> "Installation from a reachable directory". But then, no matter what
> directory I specified, even just "/' or "/usr", I got the message "Could
> not find the installation directory. Please enter an existing
> directory." How can I get past that error message? Is there something
> that Yast is looking for in the directory to consider it valid?
The long answer is that I believe the route you were attempting was
intended as a full installation of SuSE from a reachable directory on
your hard disk. Unfortunately I can't recall the correct procedure for
doing what you're trying to do from YaST - I just sort of wing it and
usually get there, sorry.
The short answer is that I installed the latest version of YaST today by
typing as root: rpm -U yast*(whatever its called).rpm
And it worked - when I fired up YaST, it had the correct version number.
David Bellows
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