Re: SUSE RPMs

George Toft wrote:

>Carl Parrish wrote:
>
>
>>Okay I'm playing with a SUSE box. Trying to get a handle on yast2 (they
>>are opening the source yes?) seems I can't just use RH rpms (which makes
>>sense) but I don't know where to find SUSE rpms (I'm using this in the
>>plural not as the source rpms). Any thoughts? Perhaps my eyes are just
>>used to looking for RH rpms but that's all I seem to find. (course I
>>also don't know any of the code names for SUSE). I'm working with SUSE
>>8.2 btw
>>
>>--
>>Carl Parrish(cparrish@carlparrish.com)
>>http://www.carlparrish.com
>>--
>>Registered Linux User #295761 http://counter.li.org
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>Not sure I follow, so I'll shotgun it:
>- ftp.suse.com
>- www.rpmfind.net
>
>on the CD's you should start up YaST with CD#1 inserted, but not
>mounted. Then search for the RPM you want:
>- control center | Install/Remove Software
>- point and click your way.
>
>Installing RH RPM's:
>- cd /wherever/you/put/the/RPM
>- rpm -ivh whatever-RH.i386.rpm
>
>Because SuSE is (or was prior to 8.1) quite a bit different than RH, I
>will always use midnight commander (SuSE version) to browse the RH RPM
>before installing it. So far everything has worked out well.
>
>
Thanks George,
That should help. I'll look on rpmfind.net but now I need to figure out
how to get sftp running. Its weird ssh works but sftp doesn't I've tried
working with sshd_config but it seems that everything is okay there.

--
Carl Parrish(cparrish@carlparrish.com)
http://www.carlparrish.com
--
Registered Linux User #295761 http://counter.li.org

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