# Autoyast software selection

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/autoyast-software-selection/42403>\
**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [January 21, 2024, 8:15pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/autoyast-software-selection/42403 "2024-01-21T20:15:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![lelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e99b99/32.png) [@lelle](https://forums.suse.com/u/lelle)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 8:15pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/autoyast-software-selection/42403/1 "2024-01-21T20:15:27Z")

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Hi,

I’m trying to pxe boot and do a automatic install of SLES15 sp5  
All looks fine and it boots and retrieves autoinstall.xml file and install files that are in a apache http server.  
But when doing software selection it claims that it can’t set patterns; base enhanced base and so fort.  
My autoyast file software part looks like this, I have borrowed that from internet.

```auto
<software>
    <install_recommended config:type="boolean">true</install_recommended>
    <patterns config:type="list">
      <pattern>base</pattern>
      <pattern>enhanced_base</pattern>
      <pattern>minimal_base</pattern>
      <pattern>x11</pattern>
      <pattern>x11_yast</pattern>
      <pattern>yast2_basis</pattern>
      <pattern>yast2_server</pattern>
    </patterns>
    <packages config:type="list">
      <package>autoyast2</package>
      <package>bc</package>
      <package>btrfsprogs</package>
      <package>chrony-pool-empty</package>
      <package>dstat</package>
      <package>e2fsprogs</package>
      <package>firewalld</package>
      <package>glibc</package>
      <package>grub2</package>
      <package>iftop</package>
      <package>iotop</package>
      <package>irqbalance</package>
      <package>kdump</package>
      <package>kexec-tools</package>
      <package>lsb-release</package>
      <package>numactl</package>
      <package>net-tools-deprecated</package>
      <package>openssh</package>
      <package>sle-module-basesystem-release</package>
      <package>sle-module-server-applications-release</package>
      <package>sles-release</package>
      <package>snapper</package>
      <package>sysstat</package>
      <package>tcpdump</package>
      <package>wicked</package>
      <package>xfsprogs</package>
    </packages>
    <products config:type="list">
      <product>SLES</product>
    </products>
  </software>

```

Any suggestions?

/Lennart