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From these sources I seem to only be able to install Tripwire 1.2, whereas I know that Tripwire 2.3 is available for SuSE Pro 8.2.

I've used Tripwire 2.3 before, but not 1.2 - I can't help noticing that with 1.2 I don't have (for example) a twadmin command.

Wasn't there a message on the list which showed a error within tihs package?

I found Tripwire 2.3 to work on SuSE 8.2 when I tried it in November. Looking at my archive I see someone had a problem after then in SuSE 9, 2.3 broke after I installed it. Hmm.... that PC's running Tripwire 2.3.1.2

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I know I could just dopwnload the rpm file from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/8.2/suse/i586/ but obviously I'd rather only use software intended for release with SLES...

It is better to do so, because there will be failed dependancies, or yust recompile it for your architecture from the source.

http://www.tripwire.org/downloads/index.php (the source tarball only!)

For this you need minimum cc or cpp installed and the dependancies on packages can be found in the readme if you unpack the tar.gz file.

I know that's an option, but I really want to have a YOU based update system. I want to get Tripwire installed as soon as possible (obviously), so I may take this route if there's absolutely no alternative. Thanks, Tom.