# install/add add-on product from command line/script

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/install-add-add-on-product-from-command-line-script/24667>\
**Category:** SLES Install-Boot\
**Created:** [October 25, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/install-add-add-on-product-from-command-line-script/24667 "2013-10-25T17:57:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![castedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f19dbf/32.png) [@castedo](https://forums.suse.com/u/castedo)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/install-add-add-on-product-from-command-line-script/24667/1 "2013-10-25T17:57:33Z")

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I have the SLE-11-SP3-SDK-DVD-i586-GM-DVD1.iso file on an NFS mount and I can manually use the yast UI to add this add-on of the SDK with this .iso file. However I want to do this from my automated scripts that create and setup my virtual servers.

From the command line, how can I add/install this SDK add-on product in this .iso file?

I tried adding this to my autoinst.xml:  
  
\<add\_on\_products config:type=“list”\>  
  
\<media\_url\>\</media\_url\>  
sle-sdk  
  
\</add\_on\_products\>

AutoYast attempts to add/install the add-on but specifically reports that the add-on failed to install. I’m not surprised since the NFS mount is probably setup (by AutoYast) after AutoYast tries to add/install this SDK add-on product. I’m open having autoinst.xml do this task, but I actually have a preference to kick off this action later from bash script.

The highlights from the y2log-1 are:

2013-10-25 07:27:18 \<1\> linux(3070) [zypp] RepoManager.cc(probe):1229 going to probe the repo type at iso:///?iso=SLE-11-SP3-SDK-DVD-i586-GM-DVD1.iso&url=file:///home/castedo/macmnt/repo/ ()  
2013-10-25 07:27:18 \<1\> linux(3070) [zypp++] MediaSetAccess.cc(rewriteUrl):392 Rewriting url iso:///?iso=SLE-11-SP3-SDK-DVD-i586-GM-DVD1.iso&url=file:///home/castedo/macmnt/repo/  
2013-10-25 07:27:18 \<1\> linux(3070) [zypp++] MediaSetAccess.cc(rewriteUrl):408 Url rewrite result: iso:///?iso=SLE-11-SP3-SDK-DVD-i586-GM-DVD1.iso&url=file:///home/castedo/macmnt/repo/  
2013-10-25 07:27:18 \<1\> linux(3070) [zypp] MediaAccess.cc(open):118 Trying scheme ‘iso’  
2013-10-25 07:27:18 \<1\> linux(3070) [zypp] MediaISO.cc(MediaISO):54 MediaISO::MediaISO(iso:///?iso=SLE-11-SP3-SDK-DVD-i586-GM-DVD1.iso&url=file:///home/castedo/macmnt/repo/, )  
2013-10-25 07:27:18 \<1\> linux(3070) [zypp] MediaAccess.cc(open):118 Trying scheme ‘file’  
2013-10-25 07:27:18 \<1\> linux(3070) [zypp] MediaDIR.cc(MediaDIR):48 MediaDIR::MediaDIR(file:/home/castedo/macmnt/repo/)  
2013-10-25 07:27:18 \<1\> linux(3070) [zypp] MediaAccess.cc(open):234 Opened: file(file:/home/castedo/macmnt/repo/ not attached; localRoot “”)  
…  
2013-10-25 07:27:18 \<5\> linux(3070) [zypp] Exception.cc(log):137 MediaDIR.cc(attachTo):88 THROW: Specified path ‘/home/castedo/macmnt/repo/’ is not a directory: file:/home/castedo/macmnt/repo/  
…  
2013-10-25 07:27:18 \<3\> linux(3070) [YCP] Report.ycp:523 Failed to add add-on product.

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**Author:** ![mikewillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mikewillis](https://forums.suse.com/u/mikewillis)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 12:07am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/install-add-add-on-product-from-command-line-script/24667/2 "2013-10-26T00:07:53Z")

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You could try mounting the NFS share in a pre-install script. See section 4.16.1 at  
[https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles11/singlehtml/book\_autoyast/book\_autoyast.html](https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles11/singlehtml/book_autoyast/book_autoyast.html)

I’ve never tried referencing an iso in an AutoYaST myself and am not in a position to try it right now. I have the SDK packages in a local repo accessible via http and reference that in my AutoYaST profile.