Recommended update for YaST2 Online Update

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(Last modified: 21JAN2002)

solutions Recommended update for YaST2 Online Update SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (88cfd615b389e4b4dc9158a6c113591f)

Applies to

Product(s): SuSE Linux Admin-CD for Firewall
SuSE eMail Server III
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 for IA32
SuSE Firewall Adminhost VPN
SuSE Linux Connectivity Server

Package: yast1/yast2-core-pkginfo
yast1/yast2-config-online-update
Release: 20020121
Obsoletes: none

Indications

This update should be installed for easier access to maintenance updates of SuSE business products.

Contraindications

None.

Description

This patch for YaST Online Update enables download of patches for SuSE business products via HTTP from http://support.suse.de/psdb/. It will ask for the registration code and password before patches can be downloaded.

Installation notes

Before the update can be installed please make sure that wget (which is on the CDROM media you have recieved) is available on your system. The following command should return, along with other information, the name, version and release of the wget package:
rpm -qi wget
Please install wget if it returns "package wget is not installed".
Afterwards the update itself can easily be installed onto a running system by using the following commands:
rpm -Uhv yast2-core-pkginfo.rpm
rpm -Uhv yast2-config-online-update.rpm

links to download packages

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 for IA32 (i386)

Download Source Packages

Download the source code of the patches for maintained products.

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