Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-06-16 09:22, jdd wrote:
the sold iso is exactly the same as the downloaded one and always was. It's even a reason why the iso is never updated.
Not always.
It often was a dual layer DVD, that is, 9 gigs. Sometimes it was a double arch DVD (for both 32 and 64 bit installs, and other times it contained one arch and many more packages (thus two DVDs in the box, one for each arch). In the later case it meant they were better for offline upgrades.
You should understand than the original dvd is not the reason, and try to fix your problems - starting from the running xfce you seems to have :-)
Absolutely.
There are clearly pieces missing on the DVD. I mentioned qt, ncurses, gtk. Now I can't patch code-to-be-compiled (that I need for BerkeleyDB) with a simple command line (from within the un-archived BerkeleyDB directory) patch -p0 < name-of-patch-file that worked just fine when I performed the same compile on the 9.1 and 10.3 install /and I can patch the exact same file set with the exact same command on my Mac/ ! The only conclusion that remains is that the ISO is broken. xfce is a nice simple window manager, but it is not going to fix other parts of the installation. If I did not need linux to run /one/ particular app, I would stop this exercise immediately. The ONLY reason that I don't run the 10.3 install is that I need some other discontinued files from the 10.3 repository. I actually may have just found a source for them but I'm going to try a reinstall of 13.1 with a decent disk first. -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org