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From: EOS on 30 Sep 2007 00:21
Randy Brick MacKenna wrote:

> What I'd like to do now, if someone can tell me how, is to dis-
> associate the RPM filetype  from that nasty software installation
> tool, and instead associate it with the YaST installer.  Removing that
> software installation tool might not be a bad idea, either.  I'm
> running KDE, if that matters.

http://users.telenet.be/photo-memories/img/yast-zmd.png
deselect & select instead openSUSE updater.
ZMD can be removed with no problems;-)
zmd =/= the software installer, yast is it
zmd is just a libary for yast.
openSUSE updater uses the "ZYpp" libary with Yast.


and add repo's then you don't have to search for the rpm's over internet ;-)
add Repositories & then you can search over yast itself ;-)
http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Repositories

yast - software - installation source --> give url like
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/


I have for openSUSE 10.2 @ a mirror in belgium:
http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/suser-guru/rpm/10.2
http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/10.2
http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/
http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/non-oss
http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/software.opensuse.org/mozilla/openSUSE_10.2
http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.suse.com/suse/update/10.2
http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/software.opensuse.org/KDE:/Backports/openSUSE_10.2
http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/software.opensuse.org/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_10.2
http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/software.opensuse.org/KDE:/Community/openSUSE_10.2
http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/software.opensuse.org/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_10.2/
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/video/videolan/vlc/SuSE/10.2
--
EOS
www.photo-memories.be
Running KDE 3.5.7 / openSUSE 10.3 RC1
From: Vlad_Inhaler on 30 Sep 2007 07:45
On Sep 29, 2:04 am, Randy Brick MacKenna <randymacke...(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
> I'm new to Linux and to openSUSE. One thing I noticed is that anytime
> I download a RPM, it takes next to forever to install.
>
> First, it spends about 5-10 minutes "resolving dependencies". Then it
> spends another 5 minutes "preparing software". Then it installs the
> software, sitting at 0% completion for another 5-10 minutes -- and
> finally jumping to 99% completion, where it will usually sit for
> another few minutes until it finally completes.
>
> I mean, compared to a WinXP system, where downloading a .exe self-
> installer and waiting about 10 seconds for it to complete, this is
> excruciating.
>
> I'm not installing complex stuff, either. Simple utilities, for
> example. It seems that everything takes at least 15-20 minutes to
> complete.
>
> Is this normal?
>
> -Randy

I am running 10.1 with enough memory, a really slow processor and zmd.
My figures are not quite as bad as yours but software updates are
pretty turgid.
Most of the time I simply do not care - unless the package in question
is the kernel or something which is liable to break when a new version
is being installed, I simply let the system get on with things in the
background.

Far more annoying to me is that zmd grabs the processor *every* *time*
I boot up, screwing me if I want to do something which needs lots of
processor. It is like extending the boot process by 10-15 minutes
every time. At least the simple things work during that time.
Roll on 10.3, I hope it supports my hardware. If it does not then
I'll have to finally kill zmd myself.

From: Günther Schwarz on 30 Sep 2007 17:47
Randy Brick MacKenna wrote:

> What I'd like to do now, if someone can tell me how, is to dis-
> associate the RPM filetype from that nasty software installation
> tool, and instead associate it with the YaST installer.

You might install directly with rpm. Something like 'rpm -i package.rpm'
Check the documentation.
Or you might want to try the smart package instead of the installer
built in Yast. Smart is pretty fast and nice, somehow similar to
apt-get in Debian based distributions. Install smart and
type 'smart --help'.

G�nther
From: Randy Brick MacKenna on 30 Sep 2007 22:23
On Sep 30, 5:47 pm, Günther Schwarz <st...(a)gmx.de> wrote:
> Randy Brick MacKenna wrote:
> > What I'd like to do now, if someone can tell me how, is to dis-
> > associate the RPM filetype from that nasty software installation
> > tool, and instead associate it with the YaST installer.
>
> You might install directly with rpm. Something like 'rpm -i package.rpm'
> Check the documentation.
> Or you might want to try the smart package instead of the installer
> built in Yast. Smart is pretty fast and nice, somehow similar to
> apt-get in Debian based distributions. Install smart and
> type 'smart --help'.
>
> Günther

Thanks to everyone who responded -- my updates are snappy fast now
that ZMD is out of the picture. I'm once again a happy openSUSE
user. I spent the afternoon today learning and configuring Samba (The
O'Reilly book, by Carter et. al. is *very* good). Now I have an
awesome file server for the four WinXP clients in my home. Even on my
Tbase100 wired ethernet infrastructure, opening a 32meg Word doc is
very fast. I may go to gigabit but may not need to until I start
streaming video :-)

Very cool stuff :-)

-Randy

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