Gerhard, Thank you for your reply. (And my thanks to others for theirs.) OK, I admit it, I'm clueless. (I've never used UNIX/BSD and I've been using Linux for one week. Or more precisely, I've been websurfing with Linux for one week while doing my work on a second, Win2k machine.) But:
Do you know Mike Fabian's homepage about CJK support in SuSE Linux?
Yes but --
There you will find all necessary information plus the places where you can download the rpms which are not included in the Personal edition.
I found ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586 which has interesting-looking stuff for Korean, Tamil, etc., but not (as far as I understand) Japanese. Let's look at Canna for example. Unless I'm even stupider than I realize, Mike *doesn't* explain where I can get it. Another search at suse.de takes me to an RPM for Canna (and one for Canna-libs). OK, got them (but not yet an RPM for Cannadic). So what about Cannadic? Or indeed Kinput? Googling for "kinput2 rpm" takes me to http://www.linux.or.jp/jrpm/rpms/i386-glibc/kinput2-wnn4-v3-2.i386.html and I take the link there -- but ftp.linux.or.jp times out on me (on three attempts). I'm grateful to Stefan Dirsch for the long list of files that I need, but it seems that at this rate I'm doomed to spend an entire week searching for them (and waiting for ftp servers to pay me some attention, or perhaps just to be turned on). Or of course I could remember that Win2k isn't that bad after all and cut my losses by installing that on top of SuSE-GNU-Linux. Say it ain't so -- that instead there's a reasonably fast way to acquire everything on Stefan's shopping list!