YasT and installing packages..??

[prateek_darkangel]

hi all,

recently removed fedora core 6 and installed suse 10.2.....how does one configure yast to install only selected packages...
what packages are required to play mp3s..?? (used to be gstreamer in FC6 but what do i use here...??)
can anyone tell me how to use good old yum to install packages in SUSE 10.2??

Right now my system cant play mp3s..watch videos . etc n i'm really missing my fedora distro...any help will be greatly appreciated....
thanks

prateek

[gogalthorp]

Yast seems pretty good but slooow. be patient

try here for codecs and players

http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/254

[prateek_darkangel]

thx gogalthorp..

one more question...does yast support resume...??

I mean if during a download of a package the internet connection breaks down...will yast resume from where the download stopped or will it start all over again??
Because it just seems dumb that the software will install from the very beginning...
is there anyway to support resume or any better package manager ??
thanks once again...

[harner]

I use YaST a lot, but I also like SMART because it's easy and I mainly work with command line.

Check it out. I'm not sure about the resume thing, sorry!

[prateek_darkangel]

hi harner..
have got smart and its gui installed...how wnd where do i add the repositories...??
currently it just shows me my system rpms that have been already installed...
nay help will e appreciated...
thanks...

[gogalthorp]

Did you run

smart update

???

here is a good smart info page

http://susewiki.org/index.php?title=Smart