[Lincs] Re: plea for help (Yast)

[EN Baker]

<htmlHi<br>
RE: 3 - installing RPM's in YAST<br>
Yast is easy- i'm an almosy newbie (inexperienced but getting there) and i 
can do it... since your using KDE its REAL easy... use konquerer browse to 
the directory that contains the RPM and select it... you'll se a run-down of 
the RPM you downloaded in the main window, and a button will appear in the 
navigation bar at the top saying install with YAST... click it!<br>
Voila!<br><br>
occasionally this doesn't work :(  dunno why, sometimes it just doesnt seem 
to like it- if this is the case make sure its saved in a low level directory 
(or high, depending on your view...) i have created /toBeInstalled just for 
this very task!<br>
when you go into YAST's install software menu there's a 'select source' sub 
menu... use that to select /toBeInstalled (or wherever you've used)and it 
will check for files it can install (rpm, run, etc)... select your RPM and 
aain.... VOILA!!<br>
!!!Note!!!<br>
For some reason this method does require a directory high in the directory 
tree... for some reason it panics if it looks too far... it might just be my 
pants laptop but i vaguely remember it not liking /home/user/file.rpm (it 
might have been on the desktop... still point is not many branches)<br><br>
Sorry i feel i have rambled and kicked the arse out of the explaination 
enough... hope this helps!<br>
good luck<br>
Iain
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>From: Tom Anderson <tom.anderson@southwithambroadband.net>
>Organization: southwithambroadband
>To: Lincs Lug <lincs@mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:32:00 +0000
>Subject: [Lincs] Plea for Help
>Reply-To: lincs@mailman.lug.org.uk
>
>Hi all,
>I'm not so much a "newbie" more out of my depth.
>Suse 8.1 was/is my installation of choice so far.
>1 How do I write hyperlinks in kmail so readers just have to click the li=
>nk?
>Or is this not possible.
>2 I have an updated version of Sane with drivers for my scanner, I finall=
>y=20
>installed them somewhere where YaSt can't find them, so the scanner is st=
>ill=20
>not working.Can I copy the opened tarballs to cd and use YaSt to install?
>3 How do I get YaSt to install rpm packages downloads , it keeps asking f=
>or=20
>the disk.
>4 Being on a Dacs line I need a download manager that will reconnect to=20
>downloads when I get hit with the 2hour cutoff otherwise I get limited to=
>=20
>15Mbt downloads. I found what said it was the answer on download.com,but=20
>again couldn't install it. Where am I not going right?
>
>As you can see from the above, these are simple things that Windows users=
>  take=20
>for granted but at this time remain a mystery to me, as well as lots more=
>=2E
>Can anyone help please.
>Tom

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