[Wolves] SuSE FTP Problems - word of warning

[Peter Cannon]

On Friday 28 January 2005 14:53, Kevanf1 wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:25:10 +0000, Peter Cannon
> <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> As I said before I
>
> > tried to load KDE 3.3 from the Linux Format magazine, they had what was
> > called a 'Suse version' but it didn't work it installed sort of OK but
> > the previous version always loaded instead of 3.3
>
> Did it load 3.3 into the wrong directory?  Probably too late now but I
> seem to remember that SuSE puts stuff like KDE* into the opt directory
> whereas other distros don't.  I've found that updates from unofficial
> sources often do not go into the correct directory even though I have
> used YAST to install them.  I now deliberately make sure the path is
> full and correct.  The last itme was updating Firefox as 9.2 came with
> an older version and it wasn't updated with YOU.  So I downloaded the
> Linux version from the Mozilla site.

(h)im, dead! went out the window when I wiped the HDD and installed 9.2 
perhaps I should have said it was 9.1 that had the trouble.

Just to pour oil on the fire I installed a new graphics card on Wednesday 
Nvidia GeForce TI 4800SE works luvly jubbly :-)

-- 
Regards,
Peter Cannon.
peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk
Fedora Core 3 & Suse Pro 9.2

"There is every excuse for not knowing
there is no excuse for not asking"
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