My Environment

[sciontist]

So I took the distro exam from looking through the forums, Im gonna bail on the mandriva and stick to the openSUSE, it just seems basic and easier to understand. Now Im sure either way im going to have issues with tyhe partitioning field im not worried about it, im more worried about how I can set it up for a programming/debugging/testing c/c++ source. I want to know what packages I have to install to accomplish this, is there anything that I have to worry about during the setup process to make sure the programming and web design package gets installed ?

[Cabhan]

If I recall the SuSE installation correctly, you should be able to select some sort of Developer option during install.

If that's not true, the packages that you need are:
gcc (C/++ compiler)
glibc (GNU C Library)
make (compilation manager; not strictly necessary, but very useful for rolling an app)

You will also need a text editor of some sort. vi and Emacs are by far the most popular, and both are commandline editors that are extremely powerful. Alternatively, you can use gedit (Gnome) or kate (KDE) if you prefer a GUI approach.

Let us know if you have any further questions.