Re: [opensuse] Switching to Opensuse from ubuntu

Homepage of Alien: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/. Think that will help... Allen Zhu allen.jaloola@gmail.com Groucho Marx - "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Kevin Dupuy wrote:

On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 16:47 +0100, Christian wrote:

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Hi all, I have been using that other distribution for some time now, but I am thinking about switching to openSUSE since it seems to have some nice and cool features compared to the other. How do i install .deb packages on opensuse? Many thanks, Christian

Simplest solution: find the package in our software catalogs. Search @ http://software.opensuse.org/search (or choose "openSUSE Software" in the Firefox search bar). If nothing turns up, try searching at http://packages.opensuse-community.org/ which indexes some of the community catalogs separate of openSUSE's. Us the 1-Click Install functionality to install them (simply click on the 1-Click Install button, YaST will guide you through the rest).

If you can't find what you're looking for there, and you absolutely need to use a .deb package (.rpm packages work on openSUSE, use those if you can), then you can try using an application called "alien". It's a command line app that I'm not too familiar with, but if you need to, it's worth a shot.

Otherwise, welcome to openSUSE, and have a lot of fun! -- Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy - openSUSE Member Public Mail: Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays from the Yeaux!

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