[NTLUG:Discuss] SUSE 9.2, YaST and tetex

[Kevin Brannen]

Bradley's List Address wrote:

>I am trying to install tetex through YaST and the installation fails. 
>Where do I start looking to solve this?
>
>Several other packages also fail and I am not experienced enough to 
>figure this out. 
>
>I am trying to switch to SUSE from Fedora 2 and need some help getting 
>my brain around this. 
>
>SUSE 9.2, Athlon XP 2000+, KDE
>  
>

Are you saying it just fails and doesn't give you any error messages?  
We really need "something" to help you out. :-)

If you really are getting nothing, try looking in the bottom of 
/var/log/messages and see if anything useful was logged.

If you still can't find anything, bring up YAST again and note the 
package names you need, or at least the main one (probably 
tetex-2.0.2-198.5 as that is what I have on my system).  Then, in a 
console/terminal window, become root (if you're not already), mount the 
DVD, cd to the DVD mount point (probably /media/dvd or something like 
that) and then "cd suse/i586" to go down to all the rpms, from there you 
can run "rpm -ivh tetex-2.0.2-198.i586.rpm" and see what kind of 
messages you're really getting.  If you see "need XYZ" type of message, 
that would mean you have a dependcy problem and need to list other rpm's 
on the end of that "rpm" command line.  However, eventually, you'll have 
all the dependencies listed and it will actually try the install.  If 
there's still a problem, you will see the underlying problem.

OTOH, I would like to hope you don't have to go thru the low-level 
stuff, as educational as it is, but that you'll find an error message 
that you'll understand, or that we can help you with.  Post that and 
odds are one of us has seen it before and/or will know how to help you more.

BTW, most of the concepts you're used to under Fedora should work here:  
/var/log/messages, /etc/fstab, rpms, etc.; thanks to the LSB.  Some of 
the file locations may be a bit different, but assume the same for all 
the "major" files.  There's enough Suse people on the list we can help 
you with the Suse'isms. :-)

HTH,
Kevin