[opensuse] nVidia and Acrobat question
I update my system every day, but I noticed that some packages are still outdated. For instance nVidia proprietary drivers and Acrobat Reader. Do you have any plans to update these packages? Cheers! -- Igor Jagec
On Friday 26 October 2007 01:09, Igor Jagec wrote:
I update my system every day, but I noticed that some packages are still outdated. For instance nVidia proprietary drivers and Acrobat Reader. Do you have any plans to update these packages?
It doesn't really answer your question, but upgrading Adobe Reader (the proper name, now) using the RPM available for download directly from Adobe is trivial and works just fine. You must either use an "upgrade" invocation of the "rpm" command: # rpm -U AdobeReader_enu-8.1.1-1.i486.rpm or you must first remove the package: # rpm -e AdobeReader_enu # rpm -i AdobeReader_enu-8.1.1-1.i486.rpm
Cheers!
Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Does anyone else noticed that AdobeReader_enu-8.1.1-1.i486 is much
slower than previous version 7.x.x? I use openSuSE 10.2.
On 10/26/07, Randall R Schulz
On Friday 26 October 2007 01:09, Igor Jagec wrote:
I update my system every day, but I noticed that some packages are still outdated. For instance nVidia proprietary drivers and Acrobat Reader. Do you have any plans to update these packages?
It doesn't really answer your question, but upgrading Adobe Reader (the proper name, now) using the RPM available for download directly from Adobe is trivial and works just fine.
You must either use an "upgrade" invocation of the "rpm" command:
# rpm -U AdobeReader_enu-8.1.1-1.i486.rpm
or you must first remove the package:
# rpm -e AdobeReader_enu # rpm -i AdobeReader_enu-8.1.1-1.i486.rpm
Cheers!
Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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On Friday 26 October 2007 07:07, Cristea Bogdan wrote:
Does anyone else noticed that AdobeReader_enu-8.1.1-1.i486 is much slower than previous version 7.x.x? I use openSuSE 10.2.
In fact, I believe some things (searching, in particular) are distinctly faster. I get the impression page display is faster, too. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 07:02 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
I update my system every day, but I noticed that some packages are still outdated. For instance nVidia proprietary drivers and Acrobat Reader. Do you have any plans to update these packages? It doesn't really answer your question, but upgrading Adobe Reader (the
On Friday 26 October 2007 01:09, Igor Jagec wrote: proper name, now) using the RPM available for download directly from Adobe is trivial and works just fine.
Yep, I know about that, thanks. I've just wanted to know why these packages are not available on Update repository. I prefer using vendor supplied packages since I always assume that vendor test and debug all the programs before updating, and so on. Cheers! -- Igor Jagec
On Friday 26 October 2007 08:57:54 pm Igor Jagec wrote:
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 07:02 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Friday 26 October 2007 01:09, Igor Jagec wrote:
I update my system every day, but I noticed that some packages are still outdated. For instance nVidia proprietary drivers and Acrobat Reader. Do you have any plans to update these packages?
It doesn't really answer your question, but upgrading Adobe Reader (the proper name, now) using the RPM available for download directly from Adobe is trivial and works just fine.
Yep, I know about that, thanks. I've just wanted to know why these packages are not available on Update repository. I prefer using vendor supplied packages since I always assume that vendor test and debug all the programs before updating, and so on.
You will be surprised how many patches openSUSE developers donate to different projects, so sometimes you can be better off with 'outdated' openSUSE version than vendor supplied, ie. get patch that will be in vendor package one or two versions after you start using it. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 02:39 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
Yep, I know about that, thanks. I've just wanted to know why these packages are not available on Update repository. I prefer using vendor supplied packages since I always assume that vendor test and debug all the programs before updating, and so on. You will be surprised how many patches openSUSE developers donate to different
On Friday 26 October 2007 08:57:54 pm Igor Jagec wrote: projects, so sometimes you can be better off with 'outdated' openSUSE version than vendor supplied, ie. get patch that will be in vendor package one or two versions after you start using it.
When I said vendor supplied, I meant openSUSE version. Seems I choose the wrong term, sorry :) I'm quite new to openSUSE, so I was just asking about all that. When I was a Fedora user, I've always followed Fedora's recommendations (such as: use Yum for installing/updating software, use Livna's nVidia packages instead of nVidia's tarball package, and so on), and I've never had serious issues with Fedora. Now on openSUSE I'm doing the same thing. For instance, I've followed the recommendation for using Zypper instead of SmartPM from the starters. Cheers! -- Igor Jagec
On Saturday 27 October 2007 06:12:51 am Igor Jagec wrote:
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 02:39 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 26 October 2007 08:57:54 pm Igor Jagec wrote:
Yep, I know about that, thanks. I've just wanted to know why these packages are not available on Update repository. I prefer using vendor supplied packages since I always assume that vendor test and debug all the programs before updating, and so on.
You will be surprised how many patches openSUSE developers donate to different projects, so sometimes you can be better off with 'outdated' openSUSE version than vendor supplied, ie. get patch that will be in vendor package one or two versions after you start using it.
When I said vendor supplied, I meant openSUSE version. Seems I choose the wrong term, sorry :)
Nothing to be sorry about. It appeared to me that vendor means 'original software producer', which many people use without consideration that Linux is quite different. API is changing more often than in other OS and creating stable set of applications that 'talk the same language' is not trivial.
I'm quite new to openSUSE, so I was just asking about all that. When I was a Fedora user, I've always followed Fedora's recommendations (such as: use Yum for installing/updating software, use Livna's nVidia packages instead of nVidia's tarball package, and so on), and I've never had serious issues with Fedora. Now on openSUSE I'm doing the same thing. For instance, I've followed the recommendation for using Zypper instead of SmartPM from the starters.
Cheers!
It is always good to use original tools, and up to 10.1 there was no problems to convince people as only those that used third party software without experience how to handle them had problems. Package management problems with 10.1 that are finally cleaned with 10.3 were the reason that many used Smart. Speed of package manager is not all that counts. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Cristea Bogdan
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Igor Jagec
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Rajko M.
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Randall R Schulz