On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 10:46 -0600, Don Raboud wrote:

On Wednesday 28 May 2008 10:34, Rick Bilonick wrote:

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I just obtained an HP 2133 with Suse. How can I determine the exact version of Suse?

cat /etc/SuSE-release

-- Don

Thanks. I'm used to using repositories in Fedora to install new rpms and update existing rpms. Where can I find information on doing this in Suse? Rick -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wednesday 28 May 2008 13:57, Rick Bilonick wrote:

On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 10:46 -0600, Don Raboud wrote:

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On Wednesday 28 May 2008 10:34, Rick Bilonick wrote:

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I just obtained an HP 2133 with Suse. How can I determine the exact version of Suse?

cat /etc/SuSE-release

-- Don

Thanks. I'm used to using repositories in Fedora to install new rpms and update existing rpms.

R'uh-R'oh! You may find some RPMs for other distributions will work when installed on an openSUSE systey, but it's a dicey proposition.

Where can I find information on doing this in Suse?

OpenSUSE has one of the most comprehensive repositories of available packages (and hardware support), so you'd do well to search the stock packages and the Build Service before trying to build your own or, god forbit, install packages built for other distributions. - openSUSE Software Search <http://software.opensuse.org/search> - openSUSE Build Service <http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service> Sadly, it does not appear there are currently any available R packages (a phenomenal piece of software, by the way) in the Build Service. If you're adventurous, you could perhaps get it built there... (Don't ask me how, but you can probably get help here on doing this.)

Rick

Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wednesday 28 May 2008 21:00, Rick Bilonick wrote:

On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 18:34 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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- openSUSE Software Search <http://software.opensuse.org/search>

- openSUSE Build Service <http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service>

Sadly, it does not appear there are currently any available R packages (a phenomenal piece of software, by the way) in the Build Service.

If you're adventurous, you could perhaps get it built there... (Don't ask me how, but you can probably get help here on doing this.)

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Rick

Randall Schulz

Thanks. I found R by searching for R-base.

Whaddya' know? Thanks for pointing that out. If I'm ever bored, I might try some R stuff again. There's a whole hell of a lot to it!

I've been trying to set up repositories in yast2 but I cannot get the open source repository to work. I was able to get updates and java. Not sure what the problem is - keeps asking me if I have a connection (which I do). I pasted the URL in the space provided.

For the few times I've tried, I've found the one-click scheme to work well and frees you from all that manual repository configuration. Just click the "1-Click Install" button(s) on the system in question and you should be led directly into the appropriate, pre-primed configuration dialogs. The only issue that leaves is how to pick one of the 6 (!) R-base packages. I guess one way would be to take the one with highest version number (2.7.0-7.1, from the home:sjcundy repository). One gets the feeling six people independently decided to have the same package built by the Build Service...

Rick B.

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