On 5/4/21 4:14 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On
04/05/2021 22.02, Doug McGarrett wrote:
/snip/
Will install a new TW system on the computer
as soon as
possible. I would like to know how to
set the install routine
to make /boot and /home partitions so if this happens again
I
may have a slightly better chance of recovery. Do I
use GParted to make partitions first, or what? Tried that
when I
installed the old system, but it didn't work. Please advise.
Our advice will always be to forget Tumbleweed and use Leap.
How
many times have you reinstalled TW?
Twice--once in 2019 once in 2020--that's the one that crashed. I
installed Leap once. It does not have all the apps
available as TW does, and it lasted only a couple of months and
crashed
and burned, and I hardly even used it. Put
Mageia on the box. Not as capable as TW, but nearly.
Leap has *everything*, but maybe in a different place than TW.
possibly, but a real stretch to
declare it. it more than
likely
does not
as some package *only* for Tumbleweed.
And others are available only on Leap :-)
but no one knows what Doug will want to install next nor
where he will
obtain the package(s).
Right. He has problems understanding repositories.
You're right. I understand exactly what repositories are and
what they're used for.
What I don't understand are these two things:
1. How to determine what apps are in what repository
2. How to download an app that I want to use from the
repository found in step 1.
You simply DON'T. That's how you break your system time after
time.
instead:
step one: Tell YaST where is that repository and the name. Not
where is the package, but where is the repo.
HOW CAN I KNOW WHERE OR WHAT THE REPO IS IF I ONLY KNOW THE NAME OF
THE PACKAGE? For instance:
I have on a usb stick the rpms for Light Scribe. These probably
don't even exist anymore, but they work, when
installed via the rpm command line. Are any of them in one of
today's repositories, and if so, how would I find them?
And, I have the rpms from a commercial package--I can (and do)
install them from the command line. These will
never be in the repos.
step
two: Tell YaST you want to install "whatever".
That's all.
If there is a "user manual" for OpenSUSE,
I'd like to know and if so, I
want it.
Yes, and I told you more than once:
<https://doc.opensuse.org/>
OK, I forgot that I downloaded and printed (when the printer worked,
of course) the docs for Leap, which mostly work for TW.
I will study them.
I would welcome some ideas on how to get the printers to work again.
--doug