[ale] SUSE package manager and install empathy

[Greg Freemyer]

For opensuse package / repo  management I use zypper from the command
line most of the time.  It was introduced about 3 yrs ago.  It was bad
at first, but pretty nice now.

WebYast is coming to the next version of opensuse.  SLED already has it I think.

I don't know what to expect.

Greg

Greg

On 2/14/11, Damon Chesser <damon at damtek.com> wrote:
> On 2/14/2011 11:02 PM, James Sumners wrote:
>> SuSE 5.1 or 5.2 was the first distro I used. Then Debian Hamm (which
>> relied on the horrible deselect), followed by Red Hat 6.0/6.1. Later,
>> I gave OpenSUSE 10.0/10.1 and some Fedora versions. Of the RPM
>> distros, I like OpenSUSE the best. However, I have found that the apt
>> imitations to be painfully slow updating their database and installing
>> packages. Also, unless it has been fixed, the net installer for
>> OpenSUSE is just about useless.
>>
>> If I remember correctly, you had to know the full path to the boot
>> image on the remote server so that you could type it yourself. And
>> then it would be a gamble if it actually worked without trying it
>> several times.
>>
>> YaST has always been the best feature of SUSE.
>
> At the risk of starting flames:  Really?  Yast was the thing I always
> wanted to like about suse, but everytime I fired it up, it would take
> for ever, maybe some yast function would work, most often it would not.
> I kept trying various versions of suse, same results.    Chased me right
> off of it.  Never been back.
>> On Monday, February 14, 2011, Chuck Payne<terrorpup at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> SUSE come a long way guys. It rock solid and very easy. Zypper is as
>>> equal to Apt-get. Now, the different with SLE and openSUSE, there are
>>> ton of repos, the dependency hell, I haven't had that issue. RPM's are
>>> systems have come a long way. I don't know of anything equal to Space
>>> Walk or Auto-Yast for Debain. Remember, if it's Enterprise the two
>>> that companies use are Red Hat ( CentOS ) and SUSE Linux Enterprise
>>>
>>> RPM are very easy too, as easy as .deb and apt-get. You want a power
>>> package manager you need to try Zypper.
>>>
>>> Chuck
>
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