On Monday 13 June 2005 03:17 pm, OldSarge wrote:
To Mr. Schneider: Your calm message to me is a relief compared to what others say, and I would like to expand on what I wrote. First, in one of our other message exchanges you pointed out that ver.1.1.3 of OOo did not have to be upgraded, unless there was a specific reason or if I liked to have bleeding edge software. Well, the same applies to SuSe 9.2 Pro, I would hope, and for the same reasons I have tried to calmly point out, first, I am NOT a programmer and secondly I am on a fixed income and, despite several individuals pointing out all the "free" programing that is done, IT MUST BE REMEMBERED THAT SUSE SELLS,not gives, its program away!!!
1) It's not SuSE's program... it is Open Source Software. What you are paying for is the time and effort SuSE puts into PACKAGING the source obtained from other sources. 2) The vast amount of any bugs you may find are a) not of SuSE's making and b) well beyond the resources of SuSE to fix. Apparently you only have a vague idea of what OSS is.
I can say, for now, that I have NO bugs, so far, other than the problem of trying to figure out why, no matter who gives me help on untaring, SuSe will NOT respond as predicted!
Jeez.... untarring is basic 101 in Linux. It is not rocket science. I think the tar command is the least of your problems.
I have run into a problem with kmymoney rpm not wanting to install, as of yesterday, which downloaded and tried to install with YAST, to no avail.
Still not SuSE's problem
It simply does not install, or show where it might be installed, as far as I know.
Where did you get the rpm file?
Which is what I have been trying to say in ALL my messages. Suse DOES NOT give any help worth a darn, and only through this SLE message board have I gotten any help that I can understand. :-(:-(
You are getting all the help you have paid for. SuSE does not charge enough for its package to provide hand-holding to every little misunderstanding its users might have. Sorry to be so blunt, but you aren't pulling any punches on your end so I feel my attitude is justified in this case.