May 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Yast installer search problem.
by Witold Wolski 27 May '06

27 May '06

Hi, In the yast installer I performed a search for for "R". Yast now is searching since 20 minutes. I do not want to kill the application but can I do enything else? Suggestions? cheers Eryk

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Problem compiling R with Suse 10.1
by Witold Wolski 27 May '06

27 May '06

Hi, I am trying to compile R (R-project.org) on Suse. I was doing it hundred of times on different systems but this time there is a problem I don't know how to cope with. ./configure produces the following error message: checking whether C runtime needs -D__NO_MATH_INLINES... no checking for xmkmf... /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf configure: WARNING: I could not determine FPICFLAGS. configure: error: See the file doc/html/R-admin.html for more information. A search for this message gives a few hits but the answer is that not R but the system (suse) is "broken". I think the same because I have never seen this error before. Maybe some packages for X11 development. It's a bit unfortunate that there is no selection like X11 development in the yast installer. Help is highly appreciated. Kind regards Eryk

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SUSE 10.1 -- quite impressive -- thanks to SuSE team
by Chaitanya Chalasani 27 May '06

27 May '06

Hi, I received my SuSE 10.1 Box yesterday through DHL. Removed the previous SuSE 10.0 installation ( after data backup ) and installed 10.1 with XFS this time. The installation went very smoothly and significantly faster than 10.0. The bugs in 10.0 that annoyed me are all gone now. Kde 3.5 is very responsive. I tried XGL but not so quick on my Intel 910GL graphics chipset. The new NetworkManager was buggy and so I moved to the traditional ifup. Thanks for SuSE team for giving this option in configurations. XEN worked pretty neatly also though I don't use it. I downloaded libdvdcss and w32codecs and the xine now plays encrypted DVD's and mp3. I choose xine engine for amarok and it plays mp3 beautiful. I could read my iPod using ipod:/ kio_slave but amarok doesn't play directly from iPod, instead i have to copy them to local folder and run them. I haven't yet checked the rest, but so far damn impressive. ---- Chaitanya Chalasani.

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Re: [SLE] diff command and saving results to a file
by lerninlinux＠comcast.net 27 May '06

27 May '06

-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Anders Johansson <andjoh(a)rydsbo.net> > On Saturday 27 May 2006 17:20, lerninlinux(a)comcast.net wrote: > > How do I pipe the results to the text file? Is that "|" the command? > > You don't pipe to a file, you pipe to a command. To a file you "redirect" > > To redirect the output to a file you use the > operator, for example > > diff -u file1 file2 > outputfile > > -- > Check the headers for your unsubscription address > For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com > Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com > Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com > > THANK YOU! All these commands, so little time, still learning the lingo.

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diff command and saving results to a file
by lerninlinux＠comcast.net 27 May '06

27 May '06

I have read the man page, and I think I am overlooking something, or am entering something wrong. I am trying to use the diff command, between a file on my pc, and one on my portable hard drive. Is there a way I can send the results to a txt file, or a file I could read in an editor? Or does this save the results automatically, and I just don't know where? Trying to compare directories, of files, between machines, before rebuilding. TIA Randal

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Installed IBM/SUN JDK on OpenSUSE... now what?
by Zhang Weiwu 27 May '06

27 May '06

I am very sure this is a stupid question, the real question is why these days google are not so efficient as I expect. I installed OpenSUSE and the first surprise is there is no JRE. Seems there is a script to manipulate Gnu Java Compiler to make it work like a JRE but obviously it doesn't work, jedit simply complain and dead there. I guess I need a more 'traditional' JRE. IBM JRE comes to my mind first because it is smaller to download. After grabbed the 50MB rpm from IBM (registered myself too, I don't hate registration that much) it simply cannot install with a simple message 'package transaction failed' (said yast). I thought that might mean some conflict so I removed Gnu Java Complier by using yast and ignored a lot of real conflicts (e.g. OpenOffice depend on Gnu Java Compiler), and try install ibm jdk again, still same error message. And I try install it in command line, hoping to get more error message # rpm -i ibm-java2-i386-sdk-5.0-1.0.i386.rpm And I was told: package ibm-java2-i386-sdk-5.0-1.0.i386.rpm already installed Ah, yes, and now I found it in /opt/ibm/java2-i386-5.0 Now what? How can I make jedit run? Directly run 'jedit' gets message 'failed to set JAVACMD' I thought perhaps all I need to do is to add /opt/ibm/java2-i386-50/jre/bin to $PATH but after I did that, jedit complains: Cannot find java class: error: (It's true that there are no class name after the colon and no error message after second colon) How do I go on? Then I thought perhaps IBM JDK is not good enough and I spent a lot of time to get the Sun JDK installer and installed it (by executing the downloaded .bin file) and included /opt/SUNWappserver/jdk/jre/bin in $PATH and then, jedit complains: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: error: How do I go on? I am thinking whether or not installing OpenSUSE (rather then Novell SUSE) is a big mistake to me. I am very busy and keeps a lot of things to do on my list and I am not a typical developer / administrator who think it is fun to configure and debug a system (that's why I choose SUSE). If generally OpenSUSE is going to left me further stuff to debug and configure then I probably need to re-install Novell SUSE. Sincerely waiting for your advice (my daily work involve mostly only desktop applications, OOO, no server use, a little development). -- Zhang Weiwu Real Softservice International business: http://www.realss.com International sales: 0086 10 84606011 Inland business: http://www.realss.cn Inland sales call: 0086 592 2099987 Sent from Pine: http://www.washington.edu/pine/

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SUSE 10.1 reviewed in Japanese Magazine
by noniko 27 May '06

27 May '06

Hi, everyone I wrote a 10p of review for SUSE Linux in the current issue of Japanese Magazine. You could take a look a part of it by the URL http://direct.idg.co.jp/ftproot/html/pdf/lw/lw200607_tok3sample.pdf (Please take care, it's a pdf link...my firefox often freezes on click pdf link) Though its Japanese, I wish you could get some feeling of the article. Some new features like Xgl, Apparmor, ZENworks, improved Xen and multimedia operation in desktop etc. are written here. Bye -- noniko noniko(a)netbeans.jp Blogs: http://jroller.com/page/Noniko (Broken English) http://www.myblog.de/noniko (Schlechtes Deutsch)

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Package management seems highly messed up
by Bruce A. Mallett 27 May '06

27 May '06

My mistake perhaps, but I added a repository to the sources list and now I get a signature check every time I open the software manager. Fortunately it offers me a "Do not show this message again" check box. - Unfortunately it ignores it and continues to show me that message again each time I run it. To fix this I disabled all but the original installation DVD using "Installation Source". - But I still get the Signature check message anyway. Along with the "Do not show this message again" option. :) Anyway, to the point: I'm running "Software Management" because I want to install something. Perhaps as reward for doing all of the above (maybe not), I now get the following in response to trying to add an RPM in "Software Management": --- error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index Whatever all of that means. But as a general comment, package management always seems to offer a unique set of frustrations in suse. Probably my ignorance, but it just does not seem to work as well as does apt in something like ubuntu. I've either got to set the repositories to manual refresh in the "Installation Sources" and hope to manually refresh them frequently enough for "Software Management" to work, or I can make them auto-refresh and risk waiting an afternoon and a day for "Software Management" to finish timing out on unresponsive servers. Why is the burden of finding today's set of good mirrors mine? Should I really have to do this prior to each refresh? So then I get Software Management "to the prompt" (so to speak), and I'll get error pop-ups that the installation source is not available. I'll get this even on a good day, when all the mirrors and all of the refreshes happened quickly. So its frustrating and all the more so with the new wrinkle above. Apologies in advance .. I've not even hit SEND yet and I already feel guilty rattling off at what is otherwise such an excellent distro. (But I'm going to do it anyway) :)

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Configuring Logitech USB Headset 250
by Mike McMullin 27 May '06

27 May '06

I picked one of the above up and plugged it in. 10.0 recognizes it, as bus:001, device:006. I'd like to be able to record from it and use it in place of my external speakers (especially when I'm on midnights and everyone else is asleep, and vice-versa). Can someone point me in a direction to go? Google turns up a fair bit on using it with skype ( a project for later), but not much about normal usage that I saw.

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SuSE 10.1 / VLC / libdns_sd.so.1
by Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) 27 May '06

27 May '06

Hi, I am trying to install VLC from apt 10.1 repository (for SuSE 10.1). However, VLC requires libdns_sd.so.1, which is not available. Anyone have an idea what is the RPM (and its version) this lib belongs to? Thanks in advance.

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