Personal 9.1 / SLES 9 packages

First, please dismiss any ignorance since I recently switched from RedHat/Gnome to SuSE/KDE. I'd loaded SuSE 9.1 Personal on my desktop/makeshift server here at work, however, the apache-perl-mysql app I was trying to run was being a pain (Apache2+modperl didn't mix well for this one). So I reloaded it with SLES 9 (since we have a Novell site license) and everything is working perfectly (with the older stable version). However, I noticed that when I was searching for packages with YAST Add/Update Software Packages, the choices offered between Personal 9.1 and SLES 9 are quite different (as I'd expect, personal has things that server does not). So how do I find some of the packages that came with Personal 9.1, and do the 9.1 installers work OK with SLES 9 (or do I have to do something special)? I.E. Since this is a tinkering box to some degree, I wouldn't mind having some of the personal/AV type apps along with some goodies, such as screensavers. Thanks, Erik

Yo Erik... Your question is wrong... SuSE offers 3 versions: There is Personal (workstation only, no server software, no compilers) this is strictly for users... There is Profesional (Server software, all sources, Compilers etc) This is what is normally considered a standard distro. And then there SLES, but you know about that one... So your question should be about using profesional, and not personal. But as to your real question I have no Idea as I don't have SLES... Jerry On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 06:30, Erik Ball wrote:
First, please dismiss any ignorance since I recently switched from RedHat/Gnome to SuSE/KDE. I'd loaded SuSE 9.1 Personal on my desktop/makeshift server here at work, however, the apache-perl-mysql app I was trying to run was being a pain (Apache2+modperl didn't mix well for this one). So I reloaded it with SLES 9 (since we have a Novell site license) and everything is working perfectly (with the older stable version). However, I noticed that when I was searching for packages with YAST Add/Update Software Packages, the choices offered between Personal 9.1 and SLES 9 are quite different (as I'd expect, personal has things that server does not). So how do I find some of the packages that came with Personal 9.1, and do the 9.1 installers work OK with SLES 9 (or do I have to do something special)? I.E. Since this is a tinkering box to some degree, I wouldn't mind having some of the personal/AV type apps along with some goodies, such as screensavers.
Thanks, Erik
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Erik Ball
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Jerome R. Westrick