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Originally Posted by als2we
Im brand new to linux opensuse 10.2 and I have no idea how to install anything.
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But 10.2 is pretty old. I think 11.2 and 11.1 are still supported and maybe 11.0. Anything older than that will give you update problems, because, at some point, 'new stuff' (which is really only bug fixes for the older versions) stops making its way through to repositories.
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Originally Posted by als2we
...all I want to install is the newest version of firefox , I have tried downloading RPM files? But i dont even know what rpm is , any help would be great for this brand new user , Thanks  |
An rpm file is a package manager file. The package manager is the 'installer' for your system; the low level package management utility (rpm...I know, I know) is capable of unpacking files and placing them on your system, but doesn't have the 'smarts' to go and find libraries needed for your application. A higher level utility (yast, zypper, in this case) can do this dependency resolution, and it will be easier to use one of these, at least in the first instance.
However, it needs to be hooked up to the appropriate repositories (repositories = collections of stuff) to do its magic, and 11.1 forwards would give you a better chance of hooking up to live repositories, at this point.
for, eg, OS 11.1, a selection of the versions available are (version/repo):
MozillaFirefox-3.6.3-1.2
- mozilla/openSUSE_11.1
MozillaFirefox-3.5.9-2.4
- mozilla:legacy/openSUSE_11.1
MozillaFirefox-3.6.4-6.1
- mozilla:alpha/openSUSE_11.1 *
MozillaFirefox-3.0.4-4.7
- openSUSE:11.1/standard
* an alpha; you don't want this, if you just want it to work
3.0.xxxx was probably what 11.1 was originally shipped with; this may be that version or a simple bugfix of that version. You'd probably want 3.5.9 or 3.6.3 as a more recent version than originally shipped, but not as potentially troublesome as that alpha version.
How to do it?
- Go here, select your OS version and look for the repo that contains the version of Mozillafirefox that you want to install
- temporarily add that repo to your repos configuration in yast
- click update
- allow the update to happen
- disable the repo in yast.
(You could, more simply, use the 'one click install' from the web page I quoted earlier, but if you do this lots, eventually your repo list will get too long and involved to keep your system well maintained. for this reason, it is not a good idea.)
