I just switched from Fedora Core to SuSE. My first growing pain... My problem is that I need to find and install the following packages: cups-devel python-devel python-xml PyQt net-snmp-devel openssl I'm new to YaST, but my goal is to install the driver that will make my printer and scanner (HP PSC1315) work. Ref: http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/install.php. The instructions are actually pretty straight-forward and they make sense, with only a few minor glitches... but the search results don't include the packages. One of the minor glitches I noticed is that I can't just add a mirror to YaST as it is on the mirrors page. I must find the directory which has a subdirectory named media.1. Did I understand that correctly? I've noticed that SuSE does have RPM. That's great! I know how to use rpm -ivh blah.blah_1.2.3-4.rpm. But should I just search Google for SuSE RPMs for each of the packages? I'd prefer to get the ones released by Novell for SuSE. Thank you, Vince Aggrippino
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:30:42PM +0800, Vincente Aggrippino wrote:
One of the minor glitches I noticed is that I can't just add a mirror to YaST as it is on the mirrors page. I must find the directory which has a subdirectory named media.1. Did I understand that correctly?
Yes (for now. I understand they are working on a solution for this) http://www.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories
I've noticed that SuSE does have RPM. That's great! I know how to use rpm -ivh blah.blah_1.2.3-4.rpm. But should I just search Google for SuSE RPMs for each of the packages? I'd prefer to get the ones released by Novell for SuSE.
Adding the repositories mentioned in 1.1 should be enough. Adding Packman and Guru will take care of almost everything else. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
Vincente Aggrippino schrieb:
I just switched from Fedora Core to SuSE. My first growing pain...
My problem is that I need to find and install the following packages: cups-devel python-devel python-xml PyQt net-snmp-devel openssl
IIRC all this files are on the official inst-source. Check [1] for a mirror close to you and add the url saying 'Internet Installation Repository' to your YaST sources and you should be fine. Additional software not available on inst-source can be found on the repos houghi already pointed out.* *
I've noticed that SuSE does have RPM. That's great! I know how to use rpm -ivh blah.blah_1.2.3-4.rpm. But should I just search Google for SuSE RPMs for each of the packages? I'd prefer to get the ones released by Novell for SuSE.
You have them now ;)
Thank you, Vince Aggrippino
hth, rauch
Rauch Christian schrieb:
Vincente Aggrippino schrieb:
I just switched from Fedora Core to SuSE. My first growing pain...
My problem is that I need to find and install the following packages: cups-devel python-devel python-xml PyQt net-snmp-devel openssl
IIRC all this files are on the official inst-source. Check [1] for a mirror close to you and add the url saying 'Internet Installation Repository' to your YaST sources and you should be fine. Additional software not available on inst-source can be found on the repos houghi already pointed out.* *
Yeah, excuse early morning here before any coffee, here you have the missing link: [1]* *http://www.opensuse.org/Mirrors_Released_Version Going off to get some coffee ;) -rauch
Success!! ... Again thanks to this mailing list... To be honest, YaST's reputation is the reason why I didn't try SuSE sooner. I've read a lot of negative reviews about SuSE which focused on YaST's shortcomings.
From houghi: Adding the repositories mentioned in 1.1 should be enough. Adding Packman and Guru will take care of almost everything else.
I didn't have any luck after adding Packman and Guru, but I think they might
be important in the future. I left them in my Installation Sources
On 10/14/05, Rauch Christian
Rauch Christian schrieb:
Vincente Aggrippino schrieb:
I just switched from Fedora Core to SuSE. My first growing pain...
My problem is that I need to find and install the following packages: cups-devel python-devel python-xml PyQt net-snmp-devel openssl
IIRC all this files are on the official inst-source. Check [1] for a mirror close to you and add the url saying 'Internet Installation Repository' to your YaST sources and you should be fine. Additional software not available on inst-source can be found on the repos houghi already pointed out.* *
Yeah, excuse early morning here before any coffee, here you have the missing link:
Part of my problem, it turns out, is that the mirror which is closest to me (Australia, I'm in Malaysia) doesn't have the inst-source subdirectory for 10.0. I ended up using a mirror from Japan. Then, I had to disable the installation source from the CD media because one of the packages I wanted to install was found there first. It probably would've also worked if I had either moved the CD source down in the list or if I had just stuck the CD in the drive. I just didn't want to rely on the CD because I won't have it in the future. It's on a CD-RW which I want to re-use for other things. Going off to get some coffee ;)
-rauch
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Thanks again for all of your help. -- Vince
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:46:21PM +0800, Vincente Aggrippino wrote:
Success!! ... Again thanks to this mailing list...
To be honest, YaST's reputation is the reason why I didn't try SuSE sooner. I've read a lot of negative reviews about SuSE which focused on YaST's shortcomings.
From houghi: Adding the repositories mentioned in 1.1 should be enough. Adding Packman and Guru will take care of almost everything else.
I didn't have any luck after adding Packman and Guru, but I think they might be important in the future. I left them in my Installation Sources
You also needed to add the thre mentioned in 1.1. Packman and Guru are just an extra for the future. (e.g. the Japanese mirror you use)
I ended up using a mirror from Japan. Then, I had to disable the installation source from the CD media because one of the packages I wanted to install was found there first. It probably would've also worked if I had either moved the CD source down in the list or if I had just stuck the CD in the drive. I just didn't want to rely on the CD because I won't have it in the future. It's on a CD-RW which I want to re-use for other things.
If you have enough place on your HD, you can put all of the CDs content onto the HD, wich will make it a lot faster. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
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