[CS-FSLUG] YaST problem

[Fred A. Miller]

On Sun January 23 2005 4:31 pm, N. Thompson wrote:
> I've got a problem with the YaST software installer, I added one of the FTP
> sources to get the rest of the software and I tried to install the software
> but it froze at 38% for a very long time and finally I killed the process
> with KDE System guard. Unfortunately no however YaST thinks it has properly
> installed all the packages I had selected when it locked up but the
> packages are not installed, I cannot track down each package that didn't
> install and those that are dependencies are absent despite YaST thinking
> they are there.
>
> I don't want to have to reinstall, is there a better way to fix this?
>
> Really dumb of SUSE not to consider such a possible problem when writing
> YaST I think.

The only thing you can do, is to repick the packages and FORCE a reinstall.

Fred

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