-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday September 28 2003 15:04, Brian Kendig wrote:
Hiya! I'm new to SuSE Linux, and I like it a lot! But I've got a couple of questions as I start out with it...
(1) SuSE uses RedHat RPM's, right? Will any rpm file that works on RedHat also work on SuSE? It can't use Debian .deb files, correct?
RH rpms, as well as other distro rpms may or may not work in SuSE as you might hope. Over all they do but in certain cases they may not because RH puts some files (libs, etc) in different places. One example is KDE. SuSE and Mandrake put them in /opt dir whereas RH puts them in /usr (unix systems resources rather the the "optional" aka /opt dir). One needs to look at the site, readmes, install docs, etc...
(2) SuSE comes with Gaim 0.59, but the latest version is 0.69. I see that the Gaim web site offers rpm's for RedHat and for Mandrake, but none specifically for SuSE. Will the RedHat version work on SuSE? Or is there somewhere I can obtain the latest version specifically for SuSE?
This situation is similar to the above statement. If you look at the gaim files and see where they are located you might be able to determine if they install in essentially the same place. Mandrake rpms tend to be similar to SuSEs in this respect. However RH rpms can work in some case and not in others. Generally if a program defaults to /usr or /usr/local and so forth then chance are it may not be a problem. This is the whole reason for the LSB initiiative (LSB = Linux Standards Base). The LSB is used to make it so that the devs can make software without having to tailor it for a specific distro - a one size fits all method.
(3) In general, is there a central place to go for SuSE software that's not part of the standard distribution yet? Like, SuSE comes with KDE 3.1.1, but is KDE 3.1.3 available in a way that SuSE can be easily upgraded to?
Two places to look for SuSE rpms besides the SuSE site are: http://packman.links2linux.org/ (if you get the German language site click the flag in the right corner of english) http://rpm.pbone.net/
(4) Where does the name 'SuSE' come from, and why is it capitalized weird like that?
http://www.suse.com/us/company/suse/suse/portrait.html "Since being established by university students in 1992 in Germany, SuSE Linux has made a genuine quantum leap. Called the "Gesellschaft für Software- und Systementwicklung mbH", SuSE has grown to become one of the world's leading providers of the Open Source operating system, Linux." Therefore SuSE stands for Software und SystemEntwicklung ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^
(5) Bonus question: anybody know how to change the behavior of the KDE Konqueror web browser, so that if I enter 'apple' into the location bar, it goes to 'www.apple.com' instead of doing a Google search on 'apple'?
There's probably a way to do this but I haven't ever wanted to change this behavior so I never tried to - Maybe someone else can help you with this. HTH, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/dyw1iqnGhdjCOJsRAukZAKCAN8cqhdc4qFG9SbGfmUfFxK53pQCdFc6w WuNJydKw/1kJdp13ZbmuZ7w= =ga4m -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----