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On Friday 07 February 2003 11:47 pm, Catsquotl wrote:
Hello,
Is this possible? If so is there a how-to?
Not w/ you (as far as I've heard) One of the diferences between editions is the books if I understand correctly. I've always purchased pro versions, I like books on paper! If I were going to try what (it sounds like) you want to do I would probably just install apt4suse, read the instructions and then go for a full upgrade (except kernel, ximian, mantel-kernel, mozilla). Once this was done install Synaptic and select whatever packages you want, then apt/synaptic will work out the dependencies. Note that SuSE doesn't endorse or include apt4suse, so right there you will have moved away from the Professional version. More importantly, pay attention to what aptor synaptic say they will uninstall, if you see potential problems rethink your strategy. I did a full install of SuSE8.1 Profesional (w/ a ton of packages), did the yast online update, installed apt4suse and figured out how to use it, then ran apt-get update, apt-get -s upgrade, apt-get upgrade. At this point I just let things go for 2 or 3 days (1200 packages upgraded) until it finished. I'm on cable but I'm sure a phone line modem would not have slowed things down at all :-( Undoubtably part of my success was patience, part was due to a fresh install, part redundency, and part in having nothing to lose (due to it being a fresh install). As always your results may vary, this was an unprofessional driver on a closed course! Good luck. -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!