On 7/4/20 9:33 PM, DennisG wrote:


On 7/4/20 5:42 PM, Doug McGarrett wrote:


On 7/4/20 4:52 PM, DennisG wrote:


On 7/4/20 3:58 PM, Doug McGarrett wrote:


>>snip


Even tho it was dropped after 15.1, the same most recent vsn 1.03 was repackaged for the Education repo for both 15.2 and TW.

If you must have a package that is no longer maintained - the last post on artha's home site is 8 years ago - then you'll need to build it from source.  That's not difficult to do at all:
1.  install any dependencies (listed on the page) There are about a dozen, I think. The rest I could do.
2.  download tarball
3.  extract
4.  configure
5.  make
6.  make install


I'm snowed. I carefully copied the instruction and tried to run it, and this is the result:

DESKTOP-4FH9U1P:/home/doug # zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:Leap:15.1/standard/openSUSE:Leap:15.1.repo
File '/repositories/openSUSE:Leap:15.1/standard/openSUSE:Leap:15.1.repo' not found on medium 'https://download.opensuse.org/'
Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/...? shows all options] (a):

I went to firefox and got this mish-mosh:

artha from openSUSE:Leap:15.1 project

Select Your Operating System


firefox wants me to sign in! I don't think I ever had a username and password for Firefox, but if I did it was a long time ago.
I tried to find another source in FF for artha, but it comes with a long list of libs.

Anyway, all you need to do is load software.opensuse.org and search for "artha."
What do you mean, "load software.opensuse.org"  load those words into what? I loaded them into Firefox, but finally wound up with a list of libs that it needs.

In another episode, it looked like FF had the file ready to go, but it wanted a login to Firefox! I don't think I ever logged in to Firefox.

I'm sorry, Dennis, this is not getting thru to me. I don't even drink anymore, but I wish I did!


-- 
DennisG
Sorry about the private reply. I just wasn't careful.

I mentioned in a reply to Patrick (a few notes further on in the list) that an app that is mentioned in the system, aspell,
might fulfill the requirement, if I could figure out how to install and use it. OTOH, I have used Artha for years without
any sign of a problem, and I would certainly be happy to go back to it. How do I get to the Education repo? This
system of alternate (or extra?) repos has baffled me for the entire year I have been a Suser. Once I know how to get
to these extra repos,  what is the means of finding what may be available within them? 
Pat seems to think someone gave me instructions on how to deal with the hidden repos, but I have no recollection of that--not how to determine their names, or how to
get a directory of the files that are available therein, or how to download one of them to my own system. Dammit, I may be old but AFAIK, I'm not senile!
Be sure to reply to the list, not an individual.  I don't think we saw that msg to Patrick.
Sorry--I wasn't concentrating on the reply path.  I just checked this one and it is going to everbody.

IMO, for other obscure packages, as I wrote prev you really want to learn how to compile because with pkgs like that, it may be the only option.  It may seem intimidating at first, but it is not really difficult, other than sometimes getting dependencies installed (which the make command will tell you that are missing, if the source page didn't provide).

I can follow the directions for compiling and installing a file, and I have done it every once in a while, but this doesn't seem to be getting me artha.