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This is my very first post at this blog and it is tradition to start things the following way:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

printf "Hello world!\n"
read

Stay tuned!

Love & bruises,
Stefan

Originally Posted by eng-int

Originally Posted by dcurtisfra

Or, even better, fo rcibly re-install the package which provides "/etc/profile":-- aaa_base-13.2+git20140911.61c1681-27.2.x86_64

Unfortunately although aaa_base may provide /etc/profile it does not seem to actually write it.

(@nrickert -- I did check for the presence of a .rpmnew or .rpmsav before copying from profile.)

This is what I just did:

Code:

ns3:/etc # lh -d prof*
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    9.0K Jul  7  2017 profile
drwxr-xr-x

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I installed openSUSE LEAP-42.2 on my Toshiba Z930 laptop, and also on my Core-i7 custom PC over the Christmas break. Both PCs use EFI and I am not very experienced with EFI, so I thought that this might be a good learning experience. The downside was I was doing this with a head cold (ie headache, mild-fever, stuff sinus, hacking cough ... etc .. which is not the smartest condition to be in when trying something new).

The Toshiba Z930 laptop installation experience was very smooth ...

Originally Posted by deano_ferrari

I wanted to be able to install a single RPM package again, so today I right-clicked on a RPM package, and chose 'Open With' > 'Other...', then entered

Code:

xdg-su -c "/sbin/yast2 sw_single %F"

This created 'xdg-su.desktop in ~/.local/share/applications. I renamed this file to software-installer.desktop and edited it so that the name made more sense to me

Code:

Name=Software Installer

There should be corresponding update in ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

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This post provides my current views on openSUSE-LEAP currently at v.42.1.

I originally composed a version of this as a reply to an openSUSE user's questions, and decided to modify it slightly and make it into a 'blog post'.

This is the 1st of 2 parts.

This is my thinking as to the logic and discussions that lead to openSUSE LEAP-42.1. It is not original thinking but rather it comes from reading many posts of many other people far more knowledgeable and far ...