On 2024-04-01 04:51, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2024-03-31 14:25, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2024-03-31 22:01, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2024-03-31 13:35, Knurpht-openSUSE wrote:
Reading that, you will find this: "Not sure if this is still relevant to your situation, but for the sake of posterity: At least for Ubuntu, download "Discover" [software center] from the "Ubuntu Software" app. From there, AppStream links should work fine." No, he wants it his way. This is a ridiculous thread. If this was googled in
Op zondag 31 maart 2024 21:29:55 CEST schreef Darryl Gregorash: the first place instead of posting here .....
Maybe everyone should just stop replying when he opens a new thread. Then maybe he'll get the hint. ;)
Maybe you have a vested animosity towards me.
If that were true, I would not be sending replies to you at all -- ever. And I certainly would not have typed that 'wink' in the previous post.
In an earlier reply to Patrick, you wrote this:
Yesterday, when I needed this, that computer which is 30 km from here, just did nothing when clicking on the link. I did not know that I needed Discover, Google did not tell me, the opensuse.org wiki did not tell me, and nobody told me when I asked.
Today, /I/ found in my main machine that Firefox opened the link with Discover. It was me who found out that Discover was needed.
Jesus! You people! 🙁
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This nonsense all began because you were looking for "tuner". You failed to do the very first thing when looking for a package: Is it in the repositories?
No, I did not fail. That was the first thing I did. IT WAS NOT! The machine I was using, the only one available to me at that moment, said it was not in any installed repo. I did "zypper search tuner". Result was nil. I did "opi tuner" (I had to install opi first). Result was it wasn't. Still gives that result, posted on another email. Here: Telcontar:~ # opi tuner Searching repos for: tuner 1. mysqltuner 2. streamtuner2 3. R-tuneR 4. postgresqltuner 5. R-tehtuner 6. vtuner-apps 7. R-tuneRanger 8. R-kerastuneR 9. everytone-tuner 10. perl-Guitar-Tuner 11. lv2-everytone-tuner 12. vst-everytone-tuner 13. vst3-everytone-tuner 14. vtuner-apps-debuginfo 15. vtuner-apps-debugsource Pick a number (0 to quit): 0 Telcontar:~ # Finally I used <https://search.opensuse.org/packages/>. There I found that there is no search for 15.5, so I tried Tumbleweed, which told me that there was an Appstream thing, which I thought (mistakenly) was a link of sorts to a flatpack, which can be used in any distro. But Firefox did nothing with that link. Then I asked about that Appstream thing, not about tuner. It is still in the subject. And then I got attacked. Ok, the first "zypper search tuner" failed for unknown reasons I will have to investigate, because the package is there.
Well, yes it is in the 15.5 repository, as Andrei showed after you claimed a zypper search failed to find it. So all this BS was not necessary in the first place. But never mind, let's go on to finding out how to handle the AppStream mime, because that is clearly going to be an important thing to know, now and in the future.
Yesterday, if you had done an effective Google search when you were on Elesar, you would have found the solution almost immediately. I found it within only a few minutes of beginning my search. I posted what I found, but that seems not to have been of interest to you, since you didn't bother to reply.
And you are lying again, because I said that I googled. I did google on site, but found nothing. What I found was instructions for developers for creating appstream links, not on users on how to use them. It is certainly possible that I failed to use the perfect search string. It is certainly possible that I made mistakes in my commands. It is certainly possible that my machine is broken somehow. That's why one asks for help, right? I have been here in these mail lists for more than twenty years helping people. Is it so terrible that now and then I'm stuck and I have to ask for help?
Emphasis on the word "effective". I have usually found it useful to include the word "Linux" in the search phrase, so as to (hopefully) exclude all the Win-doze garbage that Google thinks I need.
I did include the word Linux.
What you did post to open this thread is very wrong or misleading: That post suggests there is a button labelled "AppStream install" on https://search.opensuse.org/packages/. There is not.
There is, and I posted the photos. I'll repost: Sequence of pages and photos: 0) https://search.opensuse.org/packages/ https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/4a9687b21c41 There is no search for leap 15.5 1) https://search.opensuse.org/packages/ https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/348240ed3e3c Click on "search". I get: 2) https://software.opensuse.org/search?q=tuner&baseproject=openSUSE%3AFactory https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/71f5999e7f30 Click on the photo at the leftmost, I get: 3) https://software.opensuse.org/package/tuner https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/9ab7af9fd7ab
Type in "tuner" and do the search, and there is no such button on the result page either. I have no idea why you even bothered to continue the search, because as you said, there is no option here to search in Leap 15.5. Never mind, let's continue. Here is what you get when you have done the search: https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/b9d5f543d7df Now you still have to click on "View" under "tuner" to get to where you will find the AppStream Install button. All that was missing from your first post, and you expect us to be able to solve your problem for you? Give me a break, Carlos. This is not the first time you have posted incomplete or inaccurate information. We are not mind readers.
Finally: You now say that you learned on your own how to handle the AppStream meme. If so, then why in hell did you not post in here, immediately, that you had resolved the issue? Then (maybe???) this thread would have come to an end already, and we could move on to the next of your non-issues.
I did post the information immediately, as soon as I got it.
And you have the colossal audacity to suggest that I might have an animosity towards you???????
Because you people have been attacking me since the start :-/ -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)