[CS-FSLUG] YaST problem

N. Thompson n.thomp at sasktel.net
Sun Jan 23 19:05:38 CST 2005


Rebooting seems to have resolved that problem, however now the KDE menu isn't 
updating when I install software, I'm going to try reinstalling the package 
that includes kbuildsycoca to see if that will fix the new problem.

On January 23, 2005 04:26 pm, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> 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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