On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 09:27 +0200, Manne Merak wrote:
Rick Bilonick wrote:
How does want prevent ZENWorks from causing problems? Every time I try to install a package, even from the SLED 10.1 DVD, ZENWorks is involved and can never be used - it ALWAYS times out after wasting a great deal of time?
I've tried using zypper but cannot get it to install an rpm that stored on the hard drive.
Rick B.
Try switching to Smart Package Manager if possible. The GUI is a bit quirky but if works like a charm.
Manne
Is this something that is likely to already be available in SLED 10.1? If it needs to be installed, what would the package name be? I haven't been able to install many packages due to the inability to resolve dependencies. For example, I tried to install blas which is on the SLED 10.1 DVD - yet it won't install because it needs libblas and gcc-fortran - neither of which are on the SLED dvd. This doesn't make much sense. (I wanted to install R which needs blas which needs ... .) I've been using Linux (almost exclusively Red Hat) for more than 10 years. Fedora has it's quirks (mostly having to use ndiswrapper to get wireless working) but most everything else is fairly straight forward. It's quite simple to use yum to install packages from the repositories and to add repositories. I had no trouble installing R and many, many other packages. With SUSE SLED 10.1, I can't install much, can't get to any repositories. IMO, it's the worst version of Linux I've ever used. Very little works easily. The one bright spot was the ease of connecting through the wireless card to my home lan using wep and to the office network using wpa. But even still, I can't connect to anything using ssh (ssh seems to connect to the remote host but it never comes back after giving the correct password - does come back and ask for the password again it I mistype it so I know I'm reaching the remote system). This weekend I plan to install a new hard drive and onto it Fedora 9. Otherwise, I don't think I'll ever get the system to be usable. The other alternative would be to install openSUSE 10.3 or 11.0 but given my experience with SLED, I don't have high hopes for openSUSE. Rick B. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org