What if I can't find a SUSE rpm for a package? Are there any other alternatives?
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What if I can't find a SUSE rpm for a package? Are there any other alternatives?
A:
If a SUSE rpm hasn't been created for a package, there are other alternatives, but your individual results may vary from package to package.
- If you feel brave, try downloading the source from the creator's website.
- If there is an rpm created for Redhat or Fedora Core, those will usually work on SUSE.
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- ah... i've been wondering about this.
- "If you feel brave, try downloading the source from the creator's website" What an understatement. I don't think I've successfully compiled any piece of software under SuSE 9.3 without either getting an obscure error message or the program crashing upon execution. I get messages claiming I don't have, amongst several things, an X server or SDL libraries installed. Sometimes when attempting to "./configure" it tells you that the C compiler is too new. I blatantly refuse to downgrade and reupgrade something as futile and frankly basic as gcc just for some silly little piece of 65KB code to compile. The thing I don't understand is why (mostly) the RPM's work everytime, when the equivalent source refused to compile, providing an output of the above. Can't see the logic there, I'm afraid. However, despite the criticism, I'm a won-over Windows user since three months. It took me a lot of work to build and get my system looking, running and feeling the way I desired, but the result is 200 percent sleeker, faster and more resource efficient than the inferior counterpart known as Microsoft Windows. $0.02 Markieman234@hotmail.com