https://opensuse.pkgs.org/15.3/mozilla-x86_64/seamonkey-irc-2.53.8.1-lp153.1.2.x86_64.rpm.html
Well, I'm back. Have an older computer to tide me over the lightning problem. Still have the unanswered question: How to install an rpm file which does not download, but is listed on the website shown in the subject line. I'm sure that this is absurdly simple for mindreaders, but I'm not one of them. And yes, I have looked at chapter 10 of the https://opensuse.org/documentation/leap/startup. . .but I don't see the answer there. (On another post, I will ask how to read my much earlier posts (and answers) about setting up a printer which is not automatically found by the system. Or an answer here to that also would be appreciated. When you answer question 1, I will print the answer and save it, when the printer is installed.) Thank you for your patience with an old geezer. --doug
mcgarrett composed on 2021-03-08 02.54 (UTC-0400):
Well, I'm back. Have an older computer to tide me over the lightning problem. Still have the unanswered question:
How to install an rpm file which does not download, but is listed on the website shown in the subject line. I'm sure
that this is absurdly simple for mindreaders, but I'm not one of them. And yes, I have looked at chapter 10 of the
https://opensuse.org/documentation/leap/startup. . .but I don't see the answer there.
(On another post, I will ask how to read my much earlier posts (and answers) about setting up a printer which is not
automatically found by the system. Or an answer here to that also would be appreciated. When you answer question 1,
1: Save the repo file http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_Leap_15.3/mozilla... to /etc/zypp/repos.d/ 2: zypper ref 3: zypper in seamonkey-irc 4: enjoy -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
On 03/08/2021 08.54, mcgarrett wrote:
Well, I'm back. Have an older computer to tide me over the lightning problem. Still have the unanswered question:
How to install an rpm file which does not download, but is listed on the website shown in the subject line. I'm sure
that this is absurdly simple for mindreaders, but I'm not one of them. And yes, I have looked at chapter 10 of the
https://opensuse.org/documentation/leap/startup <https://opensuse.org/documentation/leap/startup>. . .but I don't see the answer there.
As we have told you a dozen times, you simply DON'T. FIRST, you search for the package using YAST or ZYPPER. I even posted instructions with photos, months ago. zypper se seamonkey If it finds the package, just install it: zypper install seamonkey (or the name it tells you) If it doesn't find it, then you search, using the openSUSE search page, which will be the HOME page in firefox: https://search.opensuse.org/ Click on "packages". https://search.opensuse.org/packages/ <https://search.opensuse.org/packages/> type "seamonkey", enter. There is a seamonkey-irc, if that's the one you want. https://software.opensuse.org/package/seamonkey-irc down the page, click "show seamonkey-irc for other distributions" And, 15.3 is not listed. At that point, ask here in the list where to find seamonkey-irc. Actually, Felix has told you where it is: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_Leap_15.3 You can browse the URL and SEE the file. DON'T download it. The correct procedure is (a single line): zypper addrepo --check --refresh http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_Leap_15.3 OR use "yast2 repositories" and paste the URL there. Once you do that, you again search for the package in yast or zypper: yast2 sw_single and use the search button to find the package, then install it. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))
Carlos E. R. composed on 2021-08-03 11:48 (UTC+0200):
And, 15.3 is not listed. At that point, ask here in the list where to find seamonkey-irc. Actually, Felix has told you where it is:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_Leap_15.3
You can browse the URL and SEE the file. DON'T download it. The correct procedure is (a single line):
zypper addrepo --check --refresh http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_Leap_15.3
I've been downloading those .repo files for years. There's no chance of typos or errant copy&pastes that way. Once I know they work, I strip the cruft. e.g. name=Mozilla based projects (openSUSE_Leap_15.3) becomes name=Mozilla and [mozilla] becomes [Mozilla] I sort the lines following [Mozilla] in alphabetic order, and shorten the filename if need be too. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
On 03/08/2021 17.38, Felix Miata wrote:
Carlos E. R. composed on 2021-08-03 11:48 (UTC+0200):
And, 15.3 is not listed. At that point, ask here in the list where to find seamonkey-irc. Actually, Felix has told you where it is:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_Leap_15.3
You can browse the URL and SEE the file. DON'T download it. The correct procedure is (a single line):
zypper addrepo --check --refresh http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_Leap_15.3
I've been downloading those .repo files for years. There's no chance of typos or errant copy&pastes that way. Once I know they work, I strip the cruft. e.g.
By "don't download the file" I meant the rpm. Doug is prone to download the rpm directly and then hits a wall trying to tell zypper to install the local file. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))
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