I'm wanting to install a program called NVU but there isnt an rpm for openSuSE 10.2 available...I have a choice between a bz2 for Fedora and Mandriva plus a tarball built on Debian. Will any of these distro's version working on my system or would I be putting a perfectly good working linux system at risk (unstable)? ...thanks in advance.

NVU appears to be available for SuSE 10.2 in this repository. Are you sure it's not part of the SuSE distribution?

Nvu is oddly not available on the 10.2 DVD. They sometimes include packages that didn't make the cut for the DVD due to space requirements in the online repos, and this is the case. Pick a mirror and go for it. The ftp.opensuse.org one is always overcrowded and running slow, if you even get connected. This mirror usually isn't very busy and being on our side of the pond(s) makes it pretty fast. You can also download RPM's of it from the Nvu web site that are compiled for other distros (scroll down a little ways on the page to find precompiled binaries). They usually work on Suse, especially ones for Fedora/Red Hat. Packman also has it in the 10.1 repo (this link is also a North American mirror), but neglected to include it in the 10.2 one for some reason.

That I know of, the one on the Suse 10.2 DVD mirror is the newest one that has been compiled specifically for Suse. The ones for other distros on the Nvu web site may be newer. I don't know.

viel gluck,

J

Just out of curiosity, I checked this out because I never heard of NVu. Has anyone used this software? I tried Quanta with some of my web templates that I originally made with Frontpage, but there were some odd changes after saving the files with Quanta and they didn't look quite right. Anybody else use this with html files originally created in Frontpage? Any pros or cons of NVu?


Thanks

Well I just answered my own question. I installed it from the packman 10.1 repo (could have been the suse 10.2 repo as well, since both were active and I used Yast) onto my 10.2 laptop. I tested a file but had to change the fonts. The MS fonts didn't transfer too well. Other than that, looks good so far !

I have had some formatting issues with my web pages when testing sites created with Nvu in Linux on XP/IE7 and IE6. I'm none too thrilled about that, since most of the world uses these crappy browsers and I want my web site to look right to everyone.

Specifically, my Wee Beastie page doesn't appear with the photos/captions staggered in IE, whereas it looks just fine in Firefox/Konqueror/etc. I often write pages with the content in a centered single-cell table (such as my home page) that is ~800px wide to make things fit on anyone's computer without pooching the formatting too much. In IE the tables are justified to the left instead of centered, although the content/formatting generally appears correctly.

I haven't had much time to look into it, but forthcoming input would be appreciated...

J

Yes, I use Nvu all the time (for web-based documentation creation), but not with Frontpage created files. There's another editor that some folks recommend, Amaya. I haven't used it, but did install it. Nvu's user interface seems simpler. Whatever you're most comfortable with.