[Nottingham] feel like a newbie all over again

[david at gbenet.com]

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On 14/05/12 21:51, Godfrey Nix wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This move I have made to openSUSE has left me feeling like an absolute 
> beginner. I seem unable to do even the simplest of things with YAST2 (what 
> packages are installed, what packages are available and not installed, what 
> files are in a package, what are its dependancies)
> 
> I feel at the moment to be going round in circles with the documentation.
> 
> I am putting myself through this as a company I know is thinking of moving its 
> Solaris servers to SUSE and I wanted a first look-see.
> 
> Basically, I now have a working machine, but without any printer (turboprint 
> is not installed, AFAIK, but see above) and unable to get either Oracle 
> virtualBox or vpnc-nortel compiled. I keep getting errors relating to pkg-
> config-path not being defined and unable to locate gnutls.pc
> 
> Sadly until all this is sorted I am having to revert to a Win**** machine to 
> make connection with the office.
> 
> Any suggestions to help this old-timer?
> 
> Regards,
> Godfrey
> 
> "The best-beloved of all things in My sight is Justice"
> 
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Hello and Welcome Godfrey,

The thing about opensuse is to do things in steps. The first step is to open Yast and do a
repository update - and choose refresh. Next do an update - which may take some time. Then
do your package searches - if you can't find your package - open you web browser which loads
the suse home page - click on "get it" - then in the search bar type in the name of what you
are looking for. In so far as your printer is concerned - go to the manufacturers web site -
append Linux on  the name of your printer and see if they offer Linux support.

In the good old days "apt" got installed -- apt's good at installing programmes you would
type sudo (be root user) apt-get install then your file name. Now you have to install the
package apt separately I could send you a lot of How to's on suse and a learn Linux :

Perhaps you will be at the meet this evening? Also open a Terminal - much like a Dos prompt
and type gpg2 -k - have fun! And Welcome!

David

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