On 6/10/21 11:42 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Simon Lees <sflees@suse.de> [06-10-21 23:00]:
On 6/11/21 10:46 AM, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
ConvertAll is a very handy unit converter which will turn mm to inches, light years to miles. and just about anything in between. Zypper can't find it. I have downloaded a .tar.gz file. I have unzipped the tar.gz. file, but zypper can't seem to deal with that either. What must I do to install it? zypper won't understand tar.gz files, depending on the contents of the tar.gz file there are either 2 things you can do, in some cases the tar.gz file will contain binaries (or scripts that are ready to run), in which case you can either extract it to /opt/convertall or your home directory and either adjust your path or symlink them into /usr/bin
In the other case it will contain source code and you'll need to follow the provided instructions to build and install the code.
it would be much simpler to search for an openSUSE package and then install it. one does exist.
I'm not surprised that it exists. It's a very useful app and it's been around for quite a while. However, I used the YaST search function and found nothing. Obviously I'm doing something wrong, as usual. (I also tried the TomasK instructions, which came up against a wall of missing repo.) It occurs to me that I have on my Mageia machine an rpm that I downloaded from someplace about half a year ago, and I could just copy that rpm and see if YaST would install it, or go down and dirty, and use the rpm install formula, but I AM trying to do things the OpenSUSE way, when I can. (It escapes me that KDE and rpm were invented together--I believe--and why some distros deliberately ignore that facility and invent their own. Makes little sense to me.) --doug