[S.u.S.E. Linux] rpms for suse, ie kde4
All, Do other distributions require that the rpm's be tweaked to run well? or is it that they are harder to configure even after the rpm have been installed? I sent a mail to suse asking what needed to be done to get them to work, and it didn't look too hard, i was just wondering if it is only suse that needs the special rpm's. -- Aaron Seelye <roberto@cbvcp.com> <A HREF="http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto"><A HREF="http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto</A">http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto</A</A>> -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
SuSE is libc5, Redhat 5.0 is glibc, therefore rpms made for Redhat are problematic for SuSE. Earlier redhat rpms should work fine, although I always use alien to convert them to .tgz, as the path that redhat rpm's use is sometimes different from what is found on a SuSE box. You most likely ended up with kde beta 4 rpm's for libc6 (glibc2). Kde offers rpms for both libc5 and glibc. Or your problem could be that Kde installs to /opt by default, as does a lot of commercial software, so if you do not have an /opt partition on your box, you should make one, perhaps in /usr, and then you need to symlink it to /opt so the rpms can find it (ln -s /usr/opt /opt) or something similar. Good luck. Aaron Seelye wrote:
All,
Do other distributions require that the rpm's be tweaked to run well? or is it that they are harder to configure even after the rpm have been installed? I sent a mail to suse asking what needed to be done to get them to work, and it didn't look too hard, i was just wondering if it is only suse that needs the special rpm's.
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Michael Lankton wrote:
SuSE is libc5, Redhat 5.0 is glibc, therefore rpms made for Redhat are problematic for SuSE. Earlier redhat rpms should work fine, although I always use alien to convert them to .tgz, as the path that redhat rpm's use is sometimes different from what is found on a SuSE box. You most likely ended up with kde beta 4 rpm's for libc6 (glibc2). Kde offers rpms for both libc5 and glibc.
No, on kde's ftp, there are options for libc5 and libc6. i dl'd the libc5's, and you have to alter the rpms to make them trip something in the suse/yast configure. the suse kde's have it, but the kde kde's don't. when i asked suse about this, they told me what they did to change the kde rpm's. My question was if this was necessary in other distributions, such as slackware or rh. if not, was any configuration after installing the rpms was necessary for those distributions. -- Aaron Seelye <roberto@cbvcp.com> <A HREF="http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto"><A HREF="http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto</A">http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto</A</A>> -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
The "tweaking" may be related to shadow password, since SuSE has shadow password. Perhaps SRPM packages need to be modified to know to use /etc/shadow i.s.o /etc/passwd. Just a thought. I think RH 5.0 does not have shadow password yet in addition to the issue about glibc. Caldera OL 1.2 is based on shadow password as well as libc5. Did the SuSE folks tell you exactly what needed to be tweaked? If so, please share it with us. HTH Arun Khan At 01:12 PM 98-05-23 -0700, you wrote:
Michael Lankton wrote:
SuSE is libc5, Redhat 5.0 is glibc, therefore rpms made for Redhat are problematic for SuSE. Earlier redhat rpms should work fine, although I always use alien to convert them to .tgz, as the path that redhat rpm's use is sometimes different from what is found on a SuSE box. You most likely ended up with kde beta 4 rpm's for libc6 (glibc2). Kde offers rpms for both libc5 and glibc.
No, on kde's ftp, there are options for libc5 and libc6. i dl'd the libc5's, and you have to alter the rpms to make them trip something in the suse/yast configure. the suse kde's have it, but the kde kde's don't. when i asked suse about this, they told me what they did to change the kde rpm's. My question was if this was necessary in other distributions, such as slackware or rh. if not, was any configuration after installing the rpms was
necessary
for those distributions.
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Arun K. Khan wrote:
Did the SuSE folks tell you exactly what needed to be tweaked? If so, please share it with us.
Yes, they did, but it appears to be lost amongst the 1200+ emails on this list, so if you want it, you'll have to ask them for it. -- Aaron Seelye <roberto@cbvcp.com> <A HREF="http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto"><A HREF="http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto</A">http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto</A</A>> -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
In addition to the libc5 and glibc6 conflict... SuSE staff go to a great effort to pre-configure the rpms they put out. Other distributions (IMHO) don't put out as much of an effort... For most *nixers, it doesn't make a difference.. for the newbie, it's a god-send. I went though culture-shock when I installed Debian for the first time after having gone though three versions of SuSE.
Do other distributions require that the rpm's be tweaked to run well? or is it that they are harder to configure even after the rpm have been installed? I sent a mail to suse asking what needed to be done to get them to work, and it didn't look too hard, i was just wondering if it is only suse that needs the special rpm's.
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