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hi .. I am an experienced Ubuntu user but, I have been always soft corner with openSUSE. And after openSUSE 11.4, I had decided to switch to that from my Ubuntu 10.10.
Now I have a couple of doubts below :
1.
Along with Linux Windows XP is my primary OS, so how can I move my all downloaded Thunderbird E-mails to Windows as well as openSUSE so that , I don't need to download those E-mails again.
( I've 2 accounts configured in Thunderbird )
2.
What is the command Equivalent to "sudo apt-get install <package>" in OpenSUSE 11.4 ?
Also is there anything like "Ubuntu Software center" in OpenSUSE, using which I can install packages in some more user-friendly way ?
3.
Currently I have installed OpenSUSE 11.2 on my Hard Disk can I upgrade to OpenSUSE 11.4 EASILY ?
I don't mean to be rude, but I just wanted to say that in English, "doubt" means that you don't believe that something will meet your expectations, not that you have a question.
And if you have found a satistactory solution, mark the thread as solved.
I don't wanna be rude over-here but I was solely concentrating on the technical points (1, 2 & 3 ) but it seems that Now I should go to some "English Classes" instead using Linux, will this satisfy your "expectation" of posting the threads ?
@EricTRA , quanta & @knudfl : Thanks alot for your kind support and concern
I don't wanna be rude over-here but I was solely concentrating on the technical points (1, 2 & 3 ) but it seems that Now I should go to some "English Classes" instead using Linux, will this satisfy your "expectation" of posting the threads ?
I didn't mean to say that your English is bad or that you shouldn't post, and I don't have any "expectations".
I just noticed that it's common to say "doubt" instead of "question" (especially among people from India, I guess that maybe their language uses the same word for "doubt" and "question"?), so what's wrong about correcting it?
I guess that maybe their language uses the same word for "doubt" and "question"?
Absolutely not,
doubt: shanka,
question: prashn
The reason of this habit being common among Indians is the poor education system here. Most of the students are from middle class families thus cannot afford high standard English medium public schools.
Last edited by Aquarius_Girl; 04-15-2011 at 12:55 PM.
Just for interest, the word 'doubt' was previously used in English to mean 'question'. For example, Thomas Taylor's 1833 translation of an essay by the Platonist Proclus is titled 'Ten Doubts concerning Providence'. This definitely means questions about Providence, not doubts as to the existence of Providence.
It seems to me that the very idea of 'doubt' includes or implies the idea of 'question' and they do seem interchangeable to some extent. It's a matter of current custom, mainly.
Not to step on the toes of moderators, senior members, and gurus, and rest ... But it looks like this was solved at:
Quote:
The Suse command line installer is zypper : # zypper in <package>
Search : # zypper se <name> ( or part of name )
I just stumbled in to see what was so apt-getty ... Curiosity I guess ... it doesn't apply to me though ... so I am leaving ... Just wanted to state, That it looks pretty solved, Sorry to intrude. :-D
There's a thread over on the openSUSE forums about the creation of a Wiki page for people graduating to openSUSE from Ubuntu. I don't know if there is actually anything in the Wiki yet.
On the subject of zypper, I've found it to be quite similar to command line aptitude. Other useful zypper usages would be:
zypper refresh = aptitude update
zypper update = aptitude safe-upgrade
zypper dup = aptitude full-upgrade
Install & remove are pretty much the same syntax as posted by knudfl.
Apart from zypper, you might also want to look at the documentation for Yast. It's the one thing that really separates SuSE from other distros. Yast is a one-stop system administration tool that basically triggers scripts for your common configuration changes. I find the software management modules to be pretty handy.
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