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:
o YaST refuses to execute a system update

Keywords: YAST, UPDATE, INSTALLATION, INSTALL, BOOT

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