YaST2 not working

Thank you both! Bill

> fwscully@yahoo.com wrote:
> > Justin:
> > So, just to clarify, is Rug/Red Carpet is just as good as or better
than
> > YaST? YaST is a carry over from SLES and Red Carpet from Ximian, but
> > Novell's preferred method for updates is Rug/Red Carpet. Is that
right?
>
> At this time the preferred method is indeed red carpet for OES, however
> be sure to use the command line rug, as the GTK graphical client still
> has some OES-related bugs to get worked out.
>
> I like red carpet a LOT over YoU, primarily because it's much easier to
> develop your own channels with Open Carpet or Zenworks for Servers. Red
> Carpet is much closer to what is arguably the best package manager,
> debian Apt-Get (I would say Gentoo emerge but those aren't technically
> packages).
>
> However, Red Carpet has been patched to basically do what Yast Online
> Update does, and in fact it pulls the exact same patches with rug
pin:*.
> I personally find rug pin to be a quick hack and it has a lot of
> problems, and I hope Novell goes to the traditional Red carpet update
> for everything (they seem to be doing it pretty well).
>
> __________________
> Justin Grote
> Network Architect
> JWG Networks