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

[Jay Christnach]

Ah yes, this sounds logic. I will install wget manually (download via 
ftp and rpm -i).
I don't know much about rpm, how does it compare to deb?
Would apt be better on package management than yast? Is there a way to 
tell rpm to automatically solve dependencies? (haven't found such a 
thing in the man) That's why I want to use a tool like yast, because 
quite often there is a chain reaction and one has to install/upgrade 
many packages.
 I don't have the time right now to try it, but I'll try to install wget 
first and if yast is still not working I will  switch to apt4rpm (found 
a howto on the net). I like that simple apt-get install package command 
which I know from debian.
I want to avoid everything which involves replacing packages from the 
base system. Therefore I don't want to upgrade the whole system. This is 
a production system and if we lose the network connection for some 
reason (e.g. having to reboot and the system doesn't come up again), we 
probably will have complaining customers and we do have to ask for a 
manual intervention from the isp (netline.lu). (many $s and takes time 
during which the webpages will be offline).
I think I will find the time to check this out in a few days, I'll keep 
you informed.
Thanks all for your kind interventions.

Jay



Brent Frère wrote:

>
> 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.
>