Manually installing an app that doesn't have an RPM
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From: Stephen Horne on 3 Jan 2010 01:53 On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:03:09 +0000, David Bolt <blacklist-me(a)davjam.org> wrote: >Yes. Look for a packaged version. You'll find one through the normal >http://software.opensuse.org/search search page hiding in someones >home project, or in this case a sub-project. That's one very useful page - thanks.
From: DenverD on 3 Jan 2010 06:57 Stephen Horne wrote: > which cover a few things I may once have known, but had > long since forgotten. hmmmm, what were we talking about? heh. i wish i remembered all i knew, too. -- KDE 3.5.7 "release 72-11", openSUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.19-0.4-default #1 SMP i686 athlon
From: David Bolt on 3 Jan 2010 16:44 On Sunday 03 Jan 2010 21:06, while playing with a tin of spray paint, David Bolt painted this mural: >> 2) From 11.2 on YaST, Software, Package Search (webpin) > > I've not tried webpin, so don't know what difference search results > that would produce. The first two would only return results from > repositories that are in use. I must be practising for my senility. I read that as three separate parts, not as how to find the one module under YaST. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: www.distributed.net OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s openSUSE 11.0 32b | | openSUSE 11.2 32b | openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | openSUSE 11.2 64b | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | RISC OS 4.02 | RISC OS 3.11
From: David Bolt on 3 Jan 2010 18:01 On Sunday 03 Jan 2010 22:27, while playing with a tin of spray paint, houghi painted this mural: > David Bolt wrote: >>> And where can you search for it? These are some places: >>> 1) http://software.opensuse.org/search >> >> That works fine for those packages built using the build service. > > Which is good, as it will find some that were not in your repos that you > have in YaST. It's also my first port of call. After that I tend to go to Google and possibly freshmeat or sourceforge. They used to be the second place I went to, but I don't like their new layout so tend not to use them quite as much. >> I've not tried webpin, so don't know what difference search results >> that would produce. The first two would only return results from >> repositories that are in use. > > As you noticed, it is the process to get to where you want to go. I did. I discovered that feet that haven't been washed for several hours don't taste too good. >>> 4) Last but not least a search on google. >> >> Packman? > > I believe webpin takes care of that. I'll have to have a look some time. Just hope my memory isn't going along with my mind. >> As luck would have it, I happen to have a little pull with that >> packager and can generally get them to package stuff :-) > > Watch out, I heard he is getting a bit senile. ;-) You heard it as well? Damn. It must be getting bad. :-) Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: www.distributed.net OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s openSUSE 11.0 32b | | openSUSE 11.2 32b | openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | openSUSE 11.2 64b | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | RISC OS 4.02 | RISC OS 3.11
From: Eef Hartman on 4 Jan 2010 09:07
houghi <houghi(a)houghi.org.invalid> wrote: > 2) From 11.2 on YaST, Software, Package Search (webpin) The webpage http://packages.opensuse-community.org will do about the same webpin search for older openSUSE 11.x versions. Note that packages _before_ 11.0 aren't indexed anymore, so webpin doesn't find those, a direct search on i.e. packman _will_, though. -- ******************************************************************* ** Eef Hartman, Delft University of Technology, dept. SSC/ICT ** ** e-mail: E.J.M.Hartman(a)tudelft.nl - phone: +31-15-278 82525 ** ******************************************************************* |