[ale] Installation sources

[Jack Schneider]

Greg Freemyer wrote:

>On 1/6/06, Trey Sizemore <trey at fastmail.fm> wrote:
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>>On Fri Jan 06, 2006 04:27PM, Jack Schneider wrote:
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>>>Hi, Group
>>>
>>>I am a lurker of about three months.   I am  humiliated to be asking
>>>such a naive question, but here goes after a little background.  I have
>>>a Suse Linux 10.0 install with KDE 3.5 so what I'm asking pertains to
>>>the ale SuSE mirror.      What installation source entries should I be
>>>puting in the Yast2 Installation Source window so I may keep the system
>>>updated?
>>>I am nearby in Tennessee so I've used ale.org and the Georgia Tech
>>>software library.
>>>I use a slow  1xRTT  wireless connection  since my dialup is limited to
>>>24kbs with  no hope for higher speeds.  I actually get 144+ kbs in the
>>>wee hours so most file transfers are done then.
>>>
>>>If someone can point me to a reference I will RTFM.  At this point I
>>>just need  a simple list of server directories that Yast will accept.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance..
>>>
>>>Jack
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>>>
>>Check out http://www.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories
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>>Lots of other good openSUSE info here as well.
>>
>>--
>>Cheers,
>>Trey
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>Not a dumb question.  SuSE is very confusing right now for online usage.
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>If you are talking about YOU (Yast Online Update service for security
>updates) that should already have ftp.ale.org as a pull-down choice.
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>If you want Yast2 Software Management access to the normal RPMs that
>are part of the OpenSUSE distro then in addition to everything shown
>at the above url you also need to add the 2 repos at:
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>ftp://ftp.ale.org/mirrors/opensuse/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source
>ftp://ftp.ale.org/mirrors/opensuse/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source-java
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>SuSE has not advertized the above from what I've seen, but they
>contain all the base OpenSUSE RPMs.  ie. Without these 2, if a RPM is
>on the OpenSUSE ISOs, then I don't think they are online in a Yast
>repository other than the above.
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>I'm not sure if the above OpenSUSE RPMs are what was used to generate
>the actual 10.0 retail release or not.  If not, I have no idea where
>to find the RPMs that were used in the retail release.
>
>Greg
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>Greg Freemyer
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Hi, all

Big *THANKS* to Trey and Greg for the pointers about installation 
sources.   Thats enough info to keep me occupied for weeks... :-)       
But I'm always open to further suggestions.

Jack

Thanks
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