[Wylug-help] Installing SuSE Packages

[Daniel Walker]

On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 14:42:30 +0100, "Dave Fisher" <davef at gbdirect.co.uk>
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> In short, to achieve a reasonably capable system, quite a lot of
> additional software may need to be installed, plus some hand-crafted
> re-configuration.  I was hoping that someone with recent experience of
> this 'Personal' distro could briefly explain how SuSE expects you to
> this, and whether there are safe alternatives, e.g. how do I satisfy
> missing rpm dependencies? are SuSE rpms completely version-specific? is
> there an apt or apt-like package for SuSE that plays well with Yast?
There is a very capable apt4rpm version for SuSE [1]

I can confirm that it works pretty well, at least on my Suse 8.2. There
are Suse 9.1 Firefox packages [2] which work well too. You may need to
fiddle with KDE's Control Centre to get it to open HTML with firefox by
default; I can send you the appropriate script this evening if you'd
like.

I've never used the personal version myself. I belive all the 9.1 rpms
are compatible, though, they're just not on the CD.



[1]http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/
[2]http://www.sjaensch.org/projekte/firebird/index.en.php
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