[Lincs] YaSt

[Tom Anderson]

Hi Chris,
The software I'm trying to install is Sane backends and front ends. They =
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zipped on a disk so I've copied it to /home/user and have the opened pack=
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there.
Also Opera as a download rpm inthe same place so it is these two bits I'm=
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trying to install. If I can do these I'll be able to download Prozilla an=
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install that.

Tom


On Thursday 24 April 2003 14:43, Chris Neale wrote:
> On Thursday 24 Apr 2003 15:55, Tom Anderson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   I think it was Iain who sent me a mail about YaSt, when I was tryin=
g it
> > out I somehow wiped everything out of kmail(I did say I was out of my
> > depth) and screwed up directories. I'm now another 2 users.
> > With rpm's when I get the screen with install with YaSt ,I click , go=
 to
> > root then it tells me it can't get the CD
> > In the YaSt control panel I've tried all the options to install softw=
are,
> > I've changed the source to directory, clicked thru until the route is
> > listed run it and it tells me it can't get the CD.
>
> is the CD mounted prior to you running YaST ?
>
> at a prompt :
>
> $ mount
>
> does /cdrom ( or whatever their mountpoint is these days ) there ?
>
> if not, you need to mount the CD so YaST can read it ( assuming it is d=
aft
> enough that it does not mount CDs itself )
>
> > Please don't laugh too much but it took me 5 months to discover that =
the
> > "make"command wasn't installed as default, and I found Linux for Dumm=
ies
> > a bit advanced. If it can go wrond I'll do it. I used the YOU online
> > update and downloaded the nvidia driver along with other things, it t=
hen
> > installed itself and I ended up with a black screen and a command pro=
mpt
> > plus a little bit of panic and a fresh instalation.
> > So any help is most welcome and appreciated but please could you make=
 it
> > step by step and as simple as possible.
> > Tom
>
> I use Mdk, so I don't know the current state of SuSE Linux