On Saturday 30 June 2007 13:17, Clayton wrote: > Don't know if anyone here is aware of this (it's not listed at > http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories ) > > Google has an openSUSE repository. Full detailed instructions on how > to add the repo is here: > http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/suse102.html > > C.
I was able to find a way to manually download the Google Desktop RPM (start at <http://desktop.google.com/linux/>). I wasn't sure whether this application would run on 10.0, but for starters, at least, none of the RPM's dependencies fail on my 10.0 system. Next, the program launched (manually—see <http://desktop.google.com/linux/gettingstarted.html> for instructions) without a problem, and presented me with the dialog asking whether I wanted to enable the "advanced" features which would result in "non-personal usage data and crash reports" being sent to Google. After confirming this dialog, the Google Desktop icon appeared in the system tray, so it's clearly running. Brief monitoring of top / htop shows that indexing has begun. (It does not appear to increment its processes' nice value, but does seem to meter its invocation of the indexing applications.) When I tried to launch the Preferences application via the KDE menu, it timed out and nothing appeared to happen. However, what it actually did was open a URL, which I have configured to open a new tab in the front-most Firefox window, so apart from the taskbar launch feedback timeout, this is working, too. So it appears Google Desktop works on SuSE Linux 10.0. It will no doubt be quite a while before indexing is complete. The indexing status report says 1.8% complete with 5.7 idle hours to go. Finally, my decision to not try to organize my mountain of downloaded research papers appears to be vindicated. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
