You have to download the rpm and just use rpm -i to install it. The
installation repositories have a specific setup for how they know what is
there or not. So even though you add it, it does not mean it will read what
you are expecting it to. I believe you can also run yast2 <rpm file> and it
will isntall the rpm as well.
I hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Judd Pickell
On 6/10/06, Alan Dayley <
alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:
>
> > First, a confession: Over the memorial day weekend I updated my main
> computer from Fedora Core 3 to OpenSUSE 10.1. Yes, after several years
> I left the Red Hat fold here on this computer. And, compared to FC 5 on
> my kids' computer, OpenSUSE is much cleaner and polished. There, I said
> it.
>
> BUT, yast is driving me nuts. It's s-l-o-w. But more importantly I
> don't understand how to make it do what I want.
>
> OpenSUSE came with amaroK 1.3, a very nice music player with a
> significant bug. If you have an iPod, amaroK 1.3 will truncate your
> song database to 256 songs. The songs are still there, you just can't
> get to any beyond the first 256.
>
> Well, version 1.4 has been released and includes a fix for this bug.
> Cool! I want to update amaroK.
>
> - - I open the YaST Control Center and click "Software->Installation
> Source"
> - - After a long time (less than a minute but it seems long), my installed
> sources (ie. repositories) come up.
> - - I click "Add->Specify URL"
> - - I enter the URL for the Guru repository
> (http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.1/) because it is
> an apparently respected repository and it has amaroK 1.4 available.
> - - Making sure the Guru repository is enabled and set to refresh, I click
> "Finish" and wait for a long time again.
> - - Eventually the sources application stops doing whatever, several
> minutes of whatever, and closes.
> - - I type "amarok" in the search box.
> - - It shows the application and some other packages with amarok in the
> name. In the "Avail. Ver." column there is... nothing (huh?) and the
> "Inst. Ver." column shows my current version, 1.3.xxx.
> - - I click the checked box icon to the left of the amarok package. It
> will only change to a garbage can or back to a check box.
>
> How do I:
> - - Make it see the 1.4 version?
> - - Make it update to that version?
>
> I must be missing a step here because it shouldn't be this hard.
>
> Alan
>
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