Suse 10 repositories

Ken Burtch kburtch-Zd07PnzKK1IAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Tue Dec 13 14:58:53 UTC 2005


Hello Merv,

I've been unsuccessful with Yast on this supplementary material, even
when copying the FTP directory to my hard drive.  Perhaps they've made
some changes to Yast and haven't updated the FTP directory.  My only
advice is open a console/terminal window and to download the RPM files
(perhaps with the command wget --mirror <url-here>) and click on each
one to install the RPM files individually with Yast.

KB

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 21:18 -0500, Merv Curley wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 December 2005 09:07, Ken Burtch wrote:
> > SuSE 10 indeed has a number of packages missing from the DVDs.  Some of
> > these are for licensing reasons (OpenSuSE is GPL), others...well, for
> > unknown reasons.  If you follow the instructions at the Jem Report
> > (http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42/) you should be
> > able to find most/all the missing packages.
> >
> > For a review of OpenSUSE and a discussion on the missing packages, read
> > my blog at http://www.pegasoft.ca/coder/coder_november_2005.html.
> >
> 
> Thanks for the two links, interesting reading especially your problems.
> 
> I have added the repositories and installed the programs listed in the Jem 
> report. All that with no problem. What I am having a problem with is adding 
> the 'supplementary' repository.  
> 
> ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/ ,  similar at mirrors.
> 
> If you want the new KDE stuff add KDE/update_for_10.0/  That was the format 
> that worked for the basic things, including a Packman mirror. I tried that,  
> Yast wouldn't accept it.
> 
> I found this site, where Novell give 9.2 instructions in a detailed 
> 'how-to' .
> 
> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11504.html
> 
> For supplementary it seems you need to add ' yast-source ' as well.  That 
> directory seems to be there,  but Yast still won't accept the URL from me.
> 
> If you have time could you give this a try?  When you are successful,  the 
> KDE 3.5 update is available.  There seems to be a lot of stuff in the 
> 'Gnome' directory if that is your preference.
> 
> Merv
> 
>    
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