YaST refuses to perform an update of a single package
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Symptom:
You want to update a single package - not your entire system - and you start
YaST for doing so. You get a message that tells you,
that you have to update YaST first in order to be
able to perform the update. YaST refuses to do
anything else.
Cause:
YaST does not know, of course, that you only want to
update a single package, but it assumes that you want to update the
entire system from the running system. This is dangerous and not very
clever . That is why YaST refuses to access to the
new CD.
Solution:
If you know what you are doing, you can very simply update
YaST, while you mount the CD and then install the
yast
package.
In general it is recommended, not to update only a single package, but
(at least) the entire base system.
See also:
YaST refuses to execute a system update
Keywords: YAST, UPDATE, INSTALLATION, INSTALL, BOOT
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