OpenSuSE - Selected Packages and Dependencies (i586 & i686)

**cadash** · 16-Jul-2008, 13:18

Great Job, I was just going to make this archive myself and you saved me the time. By the way, can you tell me how do you get the RPM files. Yast deletes the RPM files even if I change the settings in /etc/zypper/ so I was was going to make a fresh install get yum and then use the cache as my archive.....

I still have to make one for Wine, madwifi and will have to check about samba

**jotaemececito** · 16-Jul-2008, 16:13

Hi

First of all, thanks for this great help. I was looking for the dependencies of VLC and I could not find anything...

Second, I want to ask: Will this work on my x86_64 system with openSuSE 11.0?

Thanks a lot once more...

jmcc

**doctorjohn2** · 16-Jul-2008, 20:14

Originally Posted by cadash

Great Job, I was just going to make this archive myself and you saved me the time. By the way, can you tell me how do you get the RPM files. Yast deletes the RPM files even if I change the settings in /etc/zypper/ so I was was going to make a fresh install get yum and then use the cache as my archive.....

I still have to make one for Wine, madwifi and will have to check about samba

Hi
I posted about this in forums.suselinuxsupport.de
After the merger I can't find my posts in the archives, maybe because my username changed

Anyway you can refer this post
OpenSuSE 10.3 Packages+Dependencies+System Upgrade May 30th 2008 - Digit Forum

**doctorjohn2** · 16-Jul-2008, 20:16

Originally Posted by jotaemececito

Will this work on my x86_64 system with openSuSE 11.0?

Am afraid not. x86_64 architecture is entirely different.
I am yet to download the 64 bit DVD. I didn't feel there was much demand for these packages among 64 bit users.

**cadash** · 16-Jul-2008, 20:53

Hi, thanks for the reply! That looks like a lot of work and it makes your job even greater

Thank you for that, I will try to see if I can make some more packages for offline installation and make them available the same way you did

Thank you again buddy

**doctorjohn2** · 17-Jul-2008, 09:06

You're welcome
Just remember, try all the above circus in VirtualBox, makes a lot more sense

If you think of sharing your packages use mediafire.com
The only problem there is filesize limit is 100 MB
For the record, Rapidshare has now increased the limit to 200 MB, so I have opened a free collectors account there and will be using that too as a mirror for my next post.

**jotaemececito** · 17-Jul-2008, 09:18

Thanks for the answer...

Originally Posted by doctorjohn2

Am afraid not. x86_64 architecture is entirely different.
I am yet to download the 64 bit DVD. I didn't feel there was much demand for these packages among 64 bit users.

So... Will you make a zip with the same packages+dependencies for x86_64? Or can you tell me where on the internet can I find those packages and dependencies?

Because I don't have internet at home... With Ubuntu it was easy because on their packages.ubuntu.com site they tell you all the dependencies for each package but I have not found a similar site for openSuSE 11.0...

Thanks a lot

**doctorjohn2** · 18-Jul-2008, 11:13

I really do not know how to give you a solution. If you can install 64 bit SuSE at the place you have an internet connection you can download all the packages with smart package manager. After installing smart open a shell and give the following command

smart config --set remove-packages=false

This will make smart cache all the packages in

/var/lib/smart/packages

You can then copy these to a cd and then install them at home using

rpm -ihv *