On 9/15/05, Erin Sharmahd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps I missed it, but I didn't see anyone actually answer this part > of the question, so I'll take a stab at it. I've never used SuSE, but > I know that with apt, after you install, sometimes you have to go edit > the /etc/apt.sources (or something to that effect) to tell it that you > want it to use online repositories instead of cds. You might try > looking in /etc/ for a yast sources file...
The problem was pretty much universal. I snooped around quite a bit looking for repositories to add to my sources, but most Suse repositories were pretty limited in the variety of software. My guess was that this was to prevent some of their 'enterprise' customers from getting things that they hadn't 'certified' in Suse and having problems and then complaining about it. The whole idea of giving people a little bit of rope, but not quite enough to hang themselves... -- Alex Esplin -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
