(Fwd) SuSE Linux

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

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I am currently planning another installfest for either Late Feb or early 
March baring a blizzard. I'll get that firmed up within the next week. 

As an answer to STephen's questions. I routinely install stuff that are not 
part of the SuSE distribution. Since SuSE distributes an export version of 
Netscape, I routinely download netscape into some download directory, 
such as /usr/local/src.
I then unzip and untar it. Netscape comes with an install script and a 
README. The install script is ns-install. 

Since SuSE use rpm, you can install software that is in an rpm by either 
using YaST or simply RPM.

rpm -U ftp.foo.bar:/pub/package.rpm

Or if you need to build a package, download, unzip and untar a source 
package. Most come with configure. In general, cd to the aprpopriate 
source directory. Read the aprpopriate readme files. SU, the run 
configure and make.

./configure
Normally this sets up the environment and makefiles to properly build the 
product and install in /usr/local.
You can change the exec-prefix and lib-prefix if you want to install to 
another location. 

After configuring, build the binaries by running make. I normally run make 
followed by "make install", but if the make files were structured correctly, 
just running "make install" should do the trick.


------- Forwarded message follows -------

From: Stephen Rowell <srowell at seaveyantenna.com>

To: discuss at blu.org


Dear Boston Linux and Unix user Group,

I recently purchased SuSE Linux 6.3.
I had no problems with the installation and I've been using Linux for
about 4 weeks now. I am finding difficulty installing applications that
didn't come on the SuSE distribution CD-ROM's and don't use the YaST
installation tool.  I am wondering if I can learn how or meet people
willing to talk about or help with installation problems.

Thanks for any information.

Regards,

Stephen.


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