"Kenneth Aar, Grafikern.no"
WARNING: Long e-mail.
I have still not seen a good explanation of how you should install SUSE 10.1 on the website.
Therefore I have put this up on the wiki in plain sight:
'''BEFORE YOU INSTALL READ THIS:'''
The package manager in SUSE 10.1 is regrettably broken on most systems.
And should be fixed with an online update - and will be better with the next one...
To correct this you should do the following after you have installed SUSE: * Open Yast chose "online update configuration" , click next and wait until finished.
And restart until everything is installed.
* Press the updater icon on you taskbar/panel * If it updates, congratulations, all is well. * If it throws up an error. Close it. * Install the alternativ package manager/updater SMART. Read the how to [[SMART HowTO|here]] You probably also want to read about [[Using_10.1|Using 10.1]] and the [[Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs#SUSE_Linux_10.1_.28Final.29|Most Annoying Bugs]].
Do with it as you please. I think it's a start. We must admit our weaknesses before we can be truly strong.
The reason for this is as follows:
There were only two places on the opensuse website about how to make the package management work:
Opensuse.org -> Download SUSE Linux -> Scroll abit -> Click Most annoying Bugs -> Click SUSE Linux 10.1 (Final) And even though It is the first bug to hit you after you install SUSE 10.1 It's pushed back to second place. And what does it say?
---- Fixed with first package management update (please install using YaST Online Update for instance via "kdesu yast2 online_update"): ----
It says that it's "Fixed"! You got to be kidding!
What is still wrong for you with the current update?
Or you could go to:
Opensuse.org -> Download SUSE Linux -> Scroll abit -> Click "Using 10.1" -> Read a long and not very consise article about all the strange things that aren't working in suse until you come to Work around. Where it doesn't really say what to do or how unless you clik -> SMART.
Phew!
Hope this stirs things up.
Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126