"Kenneth Aar, Grafikern.no" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > WARNING: Long e-mail. > > I have still not seen a good explanation of how you should install SUSE > 10.1 on the website. > > Therefore I have put this up on the wiki in plain sight: > > '''BEFORE YOU INSTALL READ THIS:''' > > The package manager in SUSE 10.1 is regrettably broken on most systems.
And should be fixed with an online update - and will be better with the next one... > To correct this you should do the following after you have installed SUSE: > * Open Yast chose "online update configuration" , click next and wait > until finished. And restart until everything is installed. > * Press the updater icon on you taskbar/panel > * If it updates, congratulations, all is well. > * If it throws up an error. Close it. > * Install the alternativ package manager/updater SMART. Read the how to > [[SMART HowTO|here]] > You probably also want to read about [[Using_10.1|Using 10.1]] and the > [[Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs#SUSE_Linux_10.1_.28Final.29|Most Annoying Bugs]]. > > Do with it as you please. I think it's a start. We must admit our > weaknesses before we can be truly strong. > > > The reason for this is as follows: > > There were only two places on the opensuse website about how to make the > package management work: > > Opensuse.org -> Download SUSE Linux -> Scroll abit -> Click Most > annoying Bugs -> Click SUSE Linux 10.1 (Final) And even though It is > the first bug to hit you after you install SUSE 10.1 It's pushed back to > second place. And what does it say? > > ---- > Fixed with first package management update (please install using YaST > Online Update for instance via "kdesu yast2 online_update"): > ---- > > It says that it's "Fixed"! You got to be kidding! What is still wrong for you with the current update? > Or you could go to: > > Opensuse.org -> Download SUSE Linux -> Scroll abit -> Click "Using 10.1" > -> Read a long and not very consise article about all the strange things > that aren't working in suse until you come to Work around. Where it > doesn't really say what to do or how unless you clik -> SMART. > > Phew! > > Hope this stirs things up. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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