Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-27 Thread Aniruddha
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 23:09 +0200, Sebastian Brandt wrote: Ben Kevan schrieb: Also, Just to lock it down to a certain repo you can do: zypper update -t package -r Repo Name Hi! Is it only on my system, or is it necessary to identify the repository by URL, and not by name? Oh,

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-27 Thread Aniruddha
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 20:37 +0100, David Bolt wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Aniruddha wrote:- I think you are far to used to openSUSE :p. I mean searching and installing from online repositories. With rpm -i you can only install local rpm's ;) FSVO local including packages hosted on web

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-27 Thread Benji Weber
On 27/10/2007, Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can the rpm system offer something better (similar to above samples)? It would be great if you can define repositories for usage with rpm. RPM is a lower level tool than that, it is more equivalent to dpkg in the debian world. Tools like zypper

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-27 Thread David Bolt
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Aniruddha wrote:- On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 20:37 +0100, David Bolt wrote: FSVO local including packages hosted on web and/or FTP servers. You can install packages using RPM by passing a URL(s). RPM will then download the package(s), sort out the correct order of

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-27 Thread Aniruddha
n Sat, 2007-10-27 at 12:37 +0100, David Bolt wrote: you mean something like: rpm -i http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:10.3/standard/ kdebase Almost. You need to specify the actual package name. That's what meant with kdebase ;) This is hardly a working solution when

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-26 Thread Jan Kupec
Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-26-07 12:25]: I wonder how do search and install rpm's from the commandline? I know I can run yast in curses mode but I am looking for something more basic. smart apt/apt-get And our brand new zypper :O) see

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-26 Thread Aniruddha
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 18:46 +0200, Jan Kupec wrote: Aniruddha wrote: I wonder how do search and install rpm's from the commandline? I know I can run yast in curses mode but I am looking for something more basic. In other words what is the openSUSE equivalent for: Debian aptitude

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-26 Thread Patrick Shanahan
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[opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-26 Thread Aniruddha
I wonder how do search and install rpm's from the commandline? I know I can run yast in curses mode but I am looking for something more basic. In other words what is the openSUSE equivalent for: Debian aptitude search $ (search in package names) apt-cache search $ (search package descriptions)

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-26 Thread Aniruddha
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 18:46 +0200, Jan Kupec wrote: Aniruddha wrote: I wonder how do search and install rpm's from the commandline? I know I can run yast in curses mode but I am looking for something more basic. In other words what is the openSUSE equivalent for: Debian aptitude

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-26 Thread Bryen
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 18:22 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: I wonder how do search and install rpm's from the commandline? I know I can run yast in curses mode but I am looking for something more basic. In other words what is the openSUSE equivalent for: Debian aptitude search $ (search in

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-26 Thread Jan Kupec
Aniruddha wrote: I wonder how do search and install rpm's from the commandline? I know I can run yast in curses mode but I am looking for something more basic. In other words what is the openSUSE equivalent for: Debian aptitude search $ (search in package names) zypper search $

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-26 Thread Aniruddha
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 18:46 +0200, Jan Kupec wrote: see http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper and man zypper for more Jano How do I update my system using zypper? '# zypper update' yields 'Nothing to do.' while according to the 'openSUSE updater applet' I have over 130 upgradable packages. --

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-26 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Aniruddha wrote: How do I update my system using zypper? '# zypper update' yields 'Nothing to do.' while according to the 'openSUSE updater applet' I have over 130 upgradable packages. zypper update package as told 1 times! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-26 Thread Benji Weber
On 26/10/2007, Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: zypper is really impressive! Does this belong to the core of openSUSE? For example when during install I don't select any package for install (including X11, yast2 KDE etc.), can I still rely on zypper?\ Zypper is in the base install, even if

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-26 Thread Gabriel .
2007/10/26, Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How do I update my system using zypper? '# zypper update' yields 'Nothing to do.' while according to the 'openSUSE updater applet' I have over 130 upgradable packages. -- Whats the output of #zypper lu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-26 Thread Aniruddha
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 18:33 +0100, Benji Weber wrote: On 26/10/2007, Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: zypper is really impressive! Does this belong to the core of openSUSE? For example when during install I don't select any package for install (including X11, yast2 KDE etc.), can I still

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-26 Thread Aniruddha
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 11:40 -0500, Bryen wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by 'search' as it could mean many things. Could you explain more indepth on that one? As for installing an rpm package, simply type 'rpm -i (filename.rpm)' Conversely, to uninstall, you would type 'rpm -e

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-26 Thread Aniruddha
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 19:33 +0200, Erik Jakobsen wrote: Aniruddha wrote: How do I update my system using zypper? '# zypper update' yields 'Nothing to do.' while according to the 'openSUSE updater applet' I have over 130 upgradable packages. zypper update package as told 1

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-26 Thread Ben Kevan
On Friday 26 October 2007 10:33:39 am Aniruddha wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 18:46 +0200, Jan Kupec wrote: see http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper and man zypper for more Jano How do I update my system using zypper? '# zypper update' yields 'Nothing to do.' while according to the 'openSUSE

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-26 Thread Aniruddha
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 11:17 -0700, Ben Kevan wrote: Also, Just to lock it down to a certain repo you can do: zypper update -t package -r Repo Name I am fiddling with the 'zypper update -t package -r Repo Name' I really wonder if there isn't there a simpler way to: 'Make a solver run

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-26 Thread David Bolt
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Aniruddha wrote:- I think you are far to used to openSUSE :p. I mean searching and installing from online repositories. With rpm -i you can only install local rpm's ;) FSVO local including packages hosted on web and/or FTP servers. You can install packages using RPM by

Re: [opensuse] How do search and install rpm's from the commandline?

2007-10-26 Thread Sebastian Brandt
Ben Kevan schrieb: Also, Just to lock it down to a certain repo you can do: zypper update -t package -r Repo Name Hi! Is it only on my system, or is it necessary to identify the repository by URL, and not by name? Oh, I just see, the zypper Alias is *not* the yast2 package name ... The