[NTLUG:Discuss] SUSE 9.2, YaST and tetex

[MikeP]

Bradley's List Address wrote:

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>>>I am trying to install tetex through YaST and the installation fails.
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>>Are you saying it just fails and doesn't give you any error messages?
>>We really need "something" to help you out. :-)
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>>If you really are getting nothing, try looking in the bottom of
>>/var/log/messages and see if anything useful was logged.
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>>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.
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>>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
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>>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. :-)
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>>HTH,
>>Kevin
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>Thanks for the reply.
>I was installing from a mirror since I don't have tetex on the downloaded
>DVD.
>I tried to update the software and many apps try to install tetex as a
>dependency. I did not see any
>useful information in /var/log/messages. The error messages in YaST didn't
>tell me anything even in
>detailed mode.
>  I aborted the update since there was still an hour and twenty minutes left
>in the update and
>I had to constantly click the error windows.
>  Now when SUSE boots, I don't have KDE Panel and can't get to my apps
>through the GUI.
>I think I will back up what I can and reinstall.
>  In case you are interested, here is a list of the failed installs before I
>aborted:
>a2ps
>bc
>cvs
>cyrus-sasl
>gdb
>ghostscript-library
>glib2
>gnome-icon-theme
>guile
>imlib
>jack
>kdebase3-kdm
>libmikmod
>libxslt
>lirc
>oaf
>openssl
>parted
>ppp
>rsync
>samba-doc
>sax2
>tcpdump
>tetex
>tk
>tux_aqfh
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>Obviously I am a beginner but am really trying to learn.
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>Thanks for your time,
>Bradley
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If you decide to try another linux distribution may I suggest Ubuntu.  
Using the command "apt-get" is alot easier than using "rpm" especially 
for a beginner.

MikeP

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