I have recently got a DVD where a kind IT gentleman has recorded SuSE 10.2 downloaded from SuSE official site. I replaced my SuSE 9.3 on my 64-bit laptop.... I heartily regret having done that. In fact, CrossOver (the Windows emulator ) does not work any more, even the newest version. I've involved Jeremy White (XOver founder) who, after reading the log file from a failed MS Office installation, states he found a weird behaviour. Moreover, I have tried to install R (statistical package). The rpm file does not install because of multiple unresolved dependencies. Then I have downloaded the source code from R CRAN site, put it in /usr/local/bin, unpacked it , and launched "./configure " But the configuration failed as it could not find any c compiler. So I ran Yast and uploaded from the DVD all sort of compilers (gcc, cc, etc...) Yast could not resolve all the dependencies but installed a bunch of packages. It keps asking for CD 1 where as I have only a DVD ..... ??? Nevertheless, at the end, none of the commands: gcc, cc were found !. Where are the c compilers in SuSE 10.2 ? Finally, a R contributor suggested me to use Yast and select from the "Package" drop-down menu the package "development tools" Surprisingly, if I click on "Packages" no list of packages is shown. SuSE 9.3 would provide all available packages listed by topic. SuSE 10.2 only gives me the option to install all of them. After all this mess suddenly the shut-down option was not retrievable any more on the system menu. Only the log-off which, if selected, was logging me off switching to text mode (like during the operating system start-up).
From the text mode I logged in as root and finally I could shut down my laptop.
I have been happily running SuSE 9.3 on my laptop since I bought it. I did not expect this catastrophe by installing a much later version. I have to specify that SuSE 10,2 comes from a free s/w download. I wonder whether I would experience the same troubles by installing from the commercial SuSE PRO 10.2 (they should be equivalent ... ?) FInally, the reason why I did not install SuSE 10.3 is because the IT person told me that the latest version is not stable. It does not allow to customize the partitions during the installation procedure ... Is it any better than 10.2 ??? Is there any relevant difference between 10.2 and 10.3 with respect to my problems ? I am more than happy to spend $60 or so and get the official SuSE installation kit as I have always done in the past if this spares my time and energy... Please, advice ... I do need my laptop up & running. PLEASE, ANSWER TO MY OTHER ACCOUNT: maura.monville@gmail.com Thank you very much, Maura -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org