On 06/15/2014 08:41 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-06-16 01:13, Tony Alfrey wrote:
jdd wrote:
Le 15/06/2014 05:25, Tony Alfrey a écrit :
This ISO is a freaking mess. Today I tried to add patches to a package of files for BerkeleyDB and the stupid install couldn't find the patch files sitting in the same directory as the un-tarred archive. Time to buy the DVD in a box.
Please, could you instead say how exactly you were doing the above?
+1 Tony, your screams of outrage -- I can imagine you throwing up your hands -- are incredibly unhelpful to us. They may be useful to you for letting of steam but to be of any use we need a bit of precision.
That is, what exactly you were trying to install (filenames, download site, link to the instructions you are following etc), and how.
And also what you were trying to ACHIEVE by this action, what were your OBJECTIVES? Because there may be a completely different way of doing this. One of the UNIX adages *thanks to Larry Wall) is "There's more than one way of doing things".
A paid for DVD will not solve that particular problem.
+1 Years ago when I had similar problems I got a friend to burn a suse DVD for me. Tony, why do you imagine a paid-for-in-a-box DVD will be any better than a (good) download and a (good) burn by someone else?
Notice that zypper will ignore a package name you give that is in, say, the current directory. It will insist in finding it in one of the configured repositories. And, it is incapable of installing anything but rpms. Certainly not source tars, nor source patches.
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