On Sunday 28 September 2003 22:04, Brian Kendig wrote:
(1) SuSE uses RedHat RPM's, right? Will any rpm file that works on RedHat also work on SuSE? It can't use Debian .deb files, correct?
"RedHat RPMs" is redundant, btw. The R in RPM is RedHat. Originally RedHat, other distros started using the package manager. However, different distros have different quirks, so an RPM for one distro may not work for another. While you may find some packages made specifically for RedHat that will work on SuSE (I've found a couple), there's no guarantee it will work. Best thing you can do if there's no SuSE option is just give the RedHat RPM a try. Worst case is it won't work and you'll have to uninstall it.
(2) SuSE comes with Gaim 0.59, but the latest version is 0.69. I see that the Gaim web site offers rpm's for RedHat and for Mandrake, but none specifically for SuSE. Will the RedHat version work on SuSE? Or is there somewhere I can obtain the latest version specifically for SuSE?
http://www.usr-local-bin.org/ has Gaim and other RPMs for SuSE. Another site to bookmark is: http://packman.links2linux.de/ which has another load of SuSE RPMs, including the stuff for MPlayer that SuSE can't distribute for legal reasons. ;-) Also, I keep up two programs: DCGUI-QT - Direct Connect client EasyTag - MP3/Ogg file tagger for whatever the current SuSE version is (8.2 now) at http://www.firechild.net/SuSE/index.html May add more programs later, but for now those are the only two I've needed to package for myself. :-P
(3) In general, is there a central place to go for SuSE software that's not part of the standard distribution yet? Like, SuSE comes with KDE 3.1.1, but is KDE 3.1.3 available in a way that SuSE can be easily upgraded to?
SuSE FTP mirrors have KDE 3.1.4. Go into the nearest mirror (list at suse.com ) and troll down to /suse/i386/supplementary directory. You'll find KDE and other stuff there. (Provided but not supported by SuSE. Read the README files there before using.) Plus the above sites...
(4) Where does the name 'SuSE' come from, and why is it capitalized weird like that?
(5) Bonus question: anybody know how to change the behavior of the KDE Konqueror web browser, so that if I enter 'apple' into the location bar, it goes to 'www.apple.com' instead of doing a Google search on 'apple'?
I'll stop at 3 out of 5. Never thought about (4), and (5) I use Mozilla or Opera for surfing. Joe -- Now Playing: Baton Rouge - Young Hearts [From Shake Your Soul (1990)] (2:36/4:19) Powered by XMMS and SuSE Linux 8.2 Pro