[Lilux-help] suse8.1 yast and ftp help needed

[Brent Frère]

Jay Christnach a écrit :

> sorry, I didn't reply to the newsgroup but only to the people who were 
> kindly wanting to help.
>
> so here is an abstract for everybody to read:
>
> -the problem is not to install the distribution but to install packages
> -distribution is suse 8.1 pro
> -discovered a menu in yast where one can change installation source to 
> ftp
> -but this doesn't work because
>    * maybe yast is missing some module for ftp to work
>    * or I have given a wrong URL (directory on ftp server)
> - because we don't want to bother the isp to get physical acces to the 
> server we want to install packages via ftp. rpm -i is ok but if many 
> dependencies rather tedious work
>
> So if anyone knows what I have to do to yast so that it pulls packages 
> via ftp and install them, this would be very nice.
>
> (I would rather like to have a debian on the machine, because I'm used 
> to it, but that's a different story)
>
> Thanks!

Dear,

If I remeber right, the YaST in Suse 8.1 fails because the wget package 
is missing in some configurations. I had this twice and it prevented me 
at least to run YOU (YaST On-line Update) properly.

I found this by looking in the YaST logs, in /var/log/YaST2/*.log

As far as I know, YaST does not provide more dependency checks than RPM 
command. It's just a graphical tool making the work easier.

I think this should help you.

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