Re: [Wlug] Trial By Fire

If you're not particularly married to SuSE, I'd say to give ubuntu a try. It has about the best package management out there (second only to Gentoo's portage, imho). On 1/21/06, Brett Russ wrote:

On 1/21/06, Marie MacDonald wrote:

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Do downloadable software packages for Linux come with intallers?

It depends. Many do but some require a few more steps. If you stick with installing SW via yast, you'll have the easiest time.

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Can anyone help with advice for YaSt? Is my issue with the Thunderbird 1.5 package perhaps?

Perhaps the recent Novell distro is different, but I've never seen Thunderbird in the Yast repository (I'm still using SuSE 9.3). Anytime I want Firefox or Thunderbird, I go direct to http://www.mozilla.com and download it there. What you download there has an installer built in.

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Quite frankly if it's this hard (frustrating!) to install software, I'm not gonna be a happy gal. I still have other things I want to add to this snappy little computer (i.e. my Palm) but darn there's gotta be an easier way. Spring semester starts 26 January and I need this up and running.

You sound determined and that's probably the most important trait for someone trying to stick with Linux. Stick with YaST as much as possible and post here for other specific questions--we'll get you through.

BR

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