ConvertAll

Douglas McGarrett

11 Jun 2021 11 Jun '21

01:16

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? --doug

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TomasK

11 Jun 11 Jun

02:54

On Thu, 2021-06-10 at 21:16 -0400, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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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? --doug

You do not say anything about what openSuSE you are using or telling us where yu got the tar file - so that we can look at what is in it .... Anyway - I assume openSuSE 15.3 - please consider this: This is what I would recommend you to do: 1. https://software.opensuse.org/search 2. search for convertall 3. Under openSUSE Leap 15.3 - click on Show experimental packages 4. Click on "1-Click Install" 5. Open with: Yast 1-Click Install (default) 6. Click: Next --> Next --> OK --> give root password .... Thats it! Hope it helps, Tomas

Simon Lees

02:59

On 6/11/21 10:46 AM, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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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. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B

Patrick Shanahan

03:42

* Simon Lees [06-10-21 23:00]:

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On 6/11/21 10:46 AM, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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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. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode

Douglas McGarrett

05:12

On 6/10/21 11:42 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Simon Lees [06-10-21 23:00]:

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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

On 6/11/21 10:46 AM, Douglas McGarrett wrote: 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

TomasK

05:22

On Fri, 2021-06-11 at 01:12 -0400, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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On 6/10/21 11:42 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Simon Lees [06-10-21 23:00]:

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On 6/11/21 10:46 AM, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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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?

Obviously I'm doing something wrong, as usual. (I also tried the TomasK instructions, which came up against a wall of missing repo.)

I am not sure what you you could have done wrong with 1-Click Install. I tried it before suggesting it - 1-Click install adds "KDE Extras" repo - which contains convertall app - then installs it without problems. It works 100% for both openSuSE 15.2 and 15.3 installs - I tried both. Please try again, until you get it right. Tomas

Robin Klitscher

05:22

On 11/06/2021 17:12, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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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.)

You're in KDE? You're aware, then, that if you invoke krunner (alt F2) and type (for example) "1000 yards in metres" into it, it will do the conversion for you? -- Robin K Wellington "Harbour City" New Zealand

Douglas McGarrett

18:41

On 6/11/21 1:22 AM, Robin Klitscher wrote:

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On 11/06/2021 17:12, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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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.)

You're in KDE?

You're aware, then, that if you invoke krunner (alt F2) and type (for example) "1000 yards in metres" into it, it will do the conversion for you?

I was not aware of that. I'd still like to get ConvertAll installed. I have tried several variants of 1-click install, OneClickInstall, and a few other things I can think of, and looked for it in KFind, which has several variant locations, etc., but all respond with some error message. I have no doubt that this is easy if you know how. But I don't! --doug

Carlos E. R.

16 Jun 16 Jun

10:30

[resending - email was lost due to server crash] On 11/06/2021 20.41, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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On 6/11/21 1:22 AM, Robin Klitscher wrote:

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On 11/06/2021 17:12, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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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.)

You're in KDE?

You're aware, then, that if you invoke krunner (alt F2) and type (for example) "1000 yards in metres" into it, it will do the conversion for

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you?

I was not aware of that. I'd still like to get ConvertAll installed. I have tried several variants of 1-click install, OneClickInstall, and a few other things I can think of, and looked for it in KFind, which has several variant locations, etc., but all respond with some error message. I have no doubt that this is easy if you know how. But I don't!

Try the way Axel Braun posted. If you get an error, stop and post here the exact error you get. We can not help you unless you tell us what you did exactly and what exact errors you get. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)

Douglas McGarrett

18:03

On 6/16/21 6:30 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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[resending - email was lost due to server crash]

On 11/06/2021 20.41, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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On 6/11/21 1:22 AM, Robin Klitscher wrote:

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On 11/06/2021 17:12, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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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.)

You're in KDE?

You're aware, then, that if you invoke krunner (alt F2) and type (for example) "1000 yards in metres" into it, it will do the conversion for

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you?

I was not aware of that. I'd still like to get ConvertAll installed. I have tried several variants of 1-click install, OneClickInstall, and a few other things I can think of, and looked for it in KFind, which has several variant locations, etc., but all respond with some error message. I have no doubt that this is easy if you know how. But I don't!

Try the way Axel Braun posted. If you get an error, stop and post here the exact error you get.

We can not help you unless you tell us what you did exactly and what exact errors you get.

Thanx Carlos. The procedure that Peter posted worked fine! Thanx to Peter also!

Carlos E. R.

18:59

On 16/06/2021 20.03, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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On 6/16/21 6:30 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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[resending - email was lost due to server crash]

On 11/06/2021 20.41, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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On 6/11/21 1:22 AM, Robin Klitscher wrote:

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On 11/06/2021 17:12, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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I was not aware of that. I'd still like to get ConvertAll installed. I have tried several variants of 1-click install, OneClickInstall, and a few other things I can think of, and looked for it in KFind, which has several variant locations, etc., but all respond with some error message. I have no doubt that this is easy if you know how. But I don't!

Try the way Axel Braun posted. If you get an error, stop and post here the exact error you get.

We can not help you unless you tell us what you did exactly and what exact errors you get.

Thanx Carlos. The procedure that Peter posted worked fine! Thanx to Peter also!

Sorry, I do not see any email in this thread by any "Peter". Must be another thread, or he posted in private to you. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)

DennisG

20:24

On 6/16/21 2:59 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 16/06/2021 20.03, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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On 6/16/21 6:30 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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[resending - email was lost due to server crash]

On 11/06/2021 20.41, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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On 6/11/21 1:22 AM, Robin Klitscher wrote:

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On 11/06/2021 17:12, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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I was not aware of that. I'd still like to get ConvertAll installed. I have tried several variants of 1-click install, OneClickInstall, and a few other things I can think of, and looked for it in KFind, which has several variant locations, etc., but all respond with some error message. I have no doubt that this is easy if you know how. But I don't!

Try the way Axel Braun posted. If you get an error, stop and post here the exact error you get.

We can not help you unless you tell us what you did exactly and what exact errors you get.

Thanx Carlos. The procedure that Peter posted worked fine! Thanx to Peter also!

Sorry, I do not see any email in this thread by any "Peter". Must be another thread, or he posted in private to you.

Peter McD on 11 June. Doug ignored my even more detailed instructions same day, but he always does. --dg

Douglas McGarrett

20:53

On 6/16/21 4:24 PM, DennisG wrote:

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Peter McD on 11 June.

Doug ignored my even more detailed instructions same day, but he always does.

--dg

Dennis, I checked back and did not find a message from you on that day, or any near it. Don't know why.--doug

Carlos E. R.

21:15

New subject: Mail problems

On 16/06/2021 22.24, DennisG wrote:

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On 6/16/21 2:59 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Thanx Carlos. The procedure that Peter posted worked fine! Thanx to Peter also!

Sorry, I do not see any email in this thread by any "Peter". Must be another thread, or he posted in private to you.

Peter McD on 11 June.

Ah, now I see it. Oops, sorry.

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Doug ignored my even more detailed instructions same day, but he always

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does.

Sorry, this time it is not his fault, your email did not get posted to the mail list. I asked Thunderbird to search on your mail address, and on this thread this is the only one. It is possible that you sent it on Friday 11, just when the opensuse mailman server stopped working because the database service had crashed. I also missed three emails that did not get posted. It is not your fault if you did not notice, but gmail's. You are using a gmail address, and one /feature/ of gmail is that it deletes what it considers "duplicates". - You send an email to the list. - The list server sends a copy of that eamil to everybody, including you. - The email sent to you by the list server google considers a duplicate, as it has the same message-id as the one in your sent folder. Thus gmail deletes it. Thus you don't get a confirmation of your mail sent to the list. - Also, when people hit "reply all" on your posts, you get first a direct post from people, and instants later, a second copy from the mail list server. Again, google deletes this copy. No, there is nothing you can do about this, except change to another mail provider. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)

Peter McD

21:01

Am 16.06.21 um 20:59 schrieb Carlos E. R.:

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On 16/06/2021 20.03, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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On 6/16/21 6:30 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 11/06/2021 20.41, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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On 6/11/21 1:22 AM, Robin Klitscher wrote:

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On 11/06/2021 17:12, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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I was not aware of that. I'd still like to get ConvertAll installed. I have tried several variants of 1-click install, OneClickInstall, and a few other things I can think of, and looked for it in KFind, which has several variant locations, etc., but all respond with some error message. I have no doubt that this is easy if you know how. But I don't!

Try the way Axel Braun posted. If you get an error, stop and post here the exact error you get.

We can not help you unless you tell us what you did exactly and what exact errors you get.

Thanx Carlos. The procedure that Peter posted worked fine! Thanx to Peter also!

Sorry, I do not see any email in this thread by any "Peter". Must be another thread, or he posted in private to you.

I insist, I exist, and so does my email;-) Peter

Carlos E. R.

21:16

On 16/06/2021 23.01, Peter McD wrote:

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Am 16.06.21 um 20:59 schrieb Carlos E. R.:

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On 16/06/2021 20.03, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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On 6/16/21 6:30 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 11/06/2021 20.41, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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On 6/11/21 1:22 AM, Robin Klitscher wrote:

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On 11/06/2021 17:12, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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Thanx Carlos. The procedure that Peter posted worked fine! Thanx to Peter also!

Sorry, I do not see any email in this thread by any "Peter". Must be another thread, or he posted in private to you.

I insist, I exist, and so does my email;-)

Oops, sorry, my fault, indeed I see your email now :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)

Peter McD

17 Jun 17 Jun

06:47

Am 16.06.21 um 23:16 schrieb Carlos E. R.:

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On 16/06/2021 23.01, Peter McD wrote:

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Am 16.06.21 um 20:59 schrieb Carlos E. R.:

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On 16/06/2021 20.03, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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On 6/16/21 6:30 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 11/06/2021 20.41, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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On 6/11/21 1:22 AM, Robin Klitscher wrote: > On 11/06/2021 17:12, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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Thanx Carlos. The procedure that Peter posted worked fine! Thanx to Peter also!

Sorry, I do not see any email in this thread by any "Peter". Must be another thread, or he posted in private to you.

I insist, I exist, and so does my email;-)

Oops, sorry, my fault, indeed I see your email now :-)

I think, it was probably caused by the weekend fun with mail servers. Peter

Carlos E. R.

07:40

On 17/06/2021 08.47, Peter McD wrote:

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Am 16.06.21 um 23:16 schrieb Carlos E. R.:

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On 16/06/2021 23.01, Peter McD wrote:

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Am 16.06.21 um 20:59 schrieb Carlos E. R.:

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On 16/06/2021 20.03, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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On 6/16/21 6:30 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 11/06/2021 20.41, Douglas McGarrett wrote: > On 6/11/21 1:22 AM, Robin Klitscher wrote: >> On 11/06/2021 17:12, Douglas McGarrett wrote:

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Thanx Carlos. The procedure that Peter posted worked fine! Thanx to Peter also!

Sorry, I do not see any email in this thread by any "Peter". Must be another thread, or he posted in private to you.

I insist, I exist, and so does my email;-)

Oops, sorry, my fault, indeed I see your email now :-)

I think, it was probably caused by the weekend fun with mail servers.

Not yours, it arrived here instantly. Nah, it was a proper goof by me, because I searched by sight instead of a grep by machine. Unless my mail client had a hiccup and your mail was sorted "out" of the thread. Happens sometimes, my ISP has a problem with this particular account. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)

Peter McD

11 Jun 11 Jun

09:46

Am 11.06.21 um 03:16 schrieb Douglas McGarrett:

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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?

You like it the hard way, dont't you? I find things like that at opensuse download https://software.opensuse.org/ There is a search mask, type "convertall" Remember Suse is moving towards SUSE SLE. There you will find several options to crash your system, so make sure, you know what you are doing. I use the German version of openSUSE, convertall is listed under "Versuchspakete" which I translate to "experimental packages". "Experimental!" You have been warned A bit looking around at "Expert Download" at openSUSE leap 15.3 brings you to SUSE SLE "Manually add repository" which again leads to. zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:Extra/openSUSE_Leap_15.3/KDE:... zypper refresh zypper install convertall Peter

Simon Lees

10:15

On 6/11/21 7:16 PM, Peter McD wrote:

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Am 11.06.21 um 03:16 schrieb Douglas McGarrett:

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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?

You like it the hard way, dont't you?

I find things like that at opensuse download https://software.opensuse.org/ There is a search mask, type "convertall"

Remember Suse is moving towards SUSE SLE.

At the same time SUSE SLE is always moving towards openSUSE Tumbleweed for the next release, so I really don't know what this has to do with much, one of the benefits of Leap is anyone could still contribute packages such as this too it if they find it useful. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B

Axel Braun

11:28

Just learned: opi (OBS package installer) opi convertall Will search and install the package opi codecs Will do the same for Codecs ;-) Schöne Grüße Axel -- Written from cell phone - excuses for typos Am 11. Juni 2021 11:46:00 MESZ schrieb Peter McD :

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Am 11.06.21 um 03:16 schrieb Douglas McGarrett:

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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?

You like it the hard way, dont't you?

I find things like that at opensuse download https://software.opensuse.org/ There is a search mask, type "convertall"

Remember Suse is moving towards SUSE SLE.

There you will find several options to crash your system, so make sure, you know what you are doing.

I use the German version of openSUSE, convertall is listed under "Versuchspakete" which I translate to "experimental packages".

"Experimental!" You have been warned

A bit looking around at "Expert Download" at openSUSE leap 15.3 brings you to SUSE SLE "Manually add repository" which again leads to.

zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:Extra/openSUSE_Leap_15.3/KDE:... zypper refresh zypper install convertall

Peter

Best, Axel -- Written from cellphone, excuses for typos

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