[NTLUG:Discuss] SUSE 9.2, YaST and tetex

[Bradley's List Address]

> Bradley's List Address wrote:
>
> >I am trying to install tetex through YaST and the installation fails.
>
> 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
>
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

Obviously I am a beginner but am really trying to learn.

Thanks for your time,
Bradley