[ale] Suse online package repositories?

Trey Sizemore trey at fastmail.fm
Sun Oct 3 21:12:17 EDT 2004


On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 19:24:59 -0400 (EDT)
"John Wells" <jb at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:

>Guys,
>
>Had to install Suse 9.1 Professional for my uncle over the weekend.  We
>were converting a machine with an older obscure scsi bus, and Suse and
>Fedora were the only two distros we could find that would work.  He's an
>old Novell guy and a fan, so the Novell/Suse relationship tipped the
>scales in that direction.
>
>I'm not really much of a Suse fan, and like yast even less.  I'm very used
>to using up2date or apt to update systems and install new features.  yast
>offers online software options, but I can't seem to find a list of servers
>that you can add (there are no defaults).
>
>Can anyone point me in the direction of some online package repositories? 
>Does SUSE maintain an official list?
>
>Thanks for the help!
>
>John
>

I run SUSE 9.1 and find this page to be a great resource:

http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/

-- 
Cheers,
Trey

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