my guess is someone in Novell (or the openSUSE community) ought to
want to hot foot it to <https://spideroak.com/> and OFFER to build
them a openSUSE friendly rpm!!! and/or add it to a repo
while waiting for all of that to happen, you can TRY this…i think it
will work (i’d try it here, but then working here does not guarantee
working there!)
using firefox (i do NOT know how all the other browsers will handle
this, so!!)
-on first page <https://spideroak.com/> hover mouse over “Fedora 10”
and click
-on the second page: read minimum system requirements! if you have
them, click “Download” (even if you have openSUSE 64 do NOT click it)
two things will happen
-
a new page pops up, do NOT follow any of the instructions on the
“Installing SpiderOak.” page (even when downloading an rpm, they are
giving deb instructions [brain dead!], instead
-
firefox will pop up a "Opening SpiderOak-95blahblah window asking
what it should do with the file
-
select “Save file” and click ok
-
firefox will pop up a file save dialog, [THINK] put the file where
you can get to it easily (your Desktop is fine), click “Save”
-when the whirring and blinking stops there should be a
SpiderOak9530blahblahblah.rpm file
it IS designed for Fedora, but it MAY be ok, maybe…continue with:
- right click on the file, in the resulting pop up menu, select
“Actions” then “Install with YaST” and cross your fingers…
if your machine is connected to the internet, and you have your
repositories set up in accordance with the recommendations here:
http://forums.opensuse.org/install-boot-login/401696-newbies-suse-11-1-pre-installation-please-read.html#post1908012
that is JUST FOUR repos enabled
then if you are living right, YaST will resolve all depedencies and
you are good to go…REPORT BACK…
if it does not install smoothly, just follow the YaST hints and
cancel…you can run rpm later with the magic UNinstall keys to clean
it out…
–
goldie
Give a hacker a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach man and you feed him for a lifetime.
Note: Accuracy, completeness, legality, or usefulness of this posting
may be illusive.