[ale] SUSE package manager and install empathy

[Geoffrey Myers]

Chuck Payne wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> For the recorder, if you refer to openSUSE, the correct spelling is
> with all lower case open and all upper case SUSE, the O is never Upper
> case, and the SUSE is always upper.

For the record, I'm pretty sure that has just become the fact since 
Novell purchased SuSE, as originally, it had always been SuSE, still 
have the original disks to prove it.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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