Software installation

[ahmadonly]

being a new user of Suse Linux, i want to know about installation procedures, is therea any kind of "exe" setup available in the installation packages, or i have to something extra to install any software.

moreover i have downloaded DEB version of openoffice, can i install it on suse. secondly what is this DEB and RPM.

the Linux gurus.... plz guide me.

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a problem in this forum website
i have noticed that whenever i use the search option of this forum and click on any seached link, the "page cannot be displayed" appears, it is happening since the day of my joining. whats the reason?

[oz]

Check this HowTo for a number of different ways to install software under Linux:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...are-linux.html

Regarding the forums search issue... can you provide a link to one of your searches so we can test it? I don't remember ever running into this problem before.

[daark.child]

openSUSE uses RPM packages and not DEB. To install openoffice, you need to click on the YaST icon or go to Menu -> System -> System -> YaST (this depends on your desktop and how the menus are setup). After that go to Software -> Management and choose the openoffice packages you want to install. Post back if you need more help.

[ahmadonly]

Check this HowTo for a number of different ways to install software under Linux:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...are-linux.html

Regarding the forums search issue... can you provide a link to one of your searches so we can test it? I don't remember ever running into this problem before.

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i am giving the link below as example, i have tried all the links that appeared in the search result, for each one the same reply of page cannot be displayed or u r not connected to intnernet. it happens to all searches i do.

"http://search.linuxforums.org/search/all/modem/"

[ahmadonly]

openSUSE uses RPM packages and not DEB. To install openoffice, you need to click on the YaST icon or go to Menu -> System -> System -> YaST (this depends on your desktop and how the menus are setup). After that go to Software -> Management and choose the openoffice packages you want to install. Post back if you need more help.

thanks daark.child for ur kind help

[ahmadonly]

thanks for the link you provided for installation of packages, but it seems like its for other distros of linux and not for Suse, can i use any RPM technique listed in the link u have posted

[gogalthorp]

The easy way go to the menu->Yast(Admin settings)

Yast-Software-Software Management

The hard way read the instruction in a console window

man rpm
and or
info rpm

Here is a link for additional Suse based repositories
Additional YaST Package Repositories - openSUSE