Dolphin error message

**Wrexxman** · 23-Aug-2012, 07:43

Howdy everyone,

I have downloaded "ooRexx-4.1.1-opensuse1140.i586.rpm" to my system, double click on it within Dolphin to install, but then I get this popup message,

" Sorry - Dolphin " (title of message box)
" KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/apper' " (body of the message)

I have looked in /usr/bin to confirm that "apper" is not there. I looked for "apper" in the install/remove software, but could not see it (there was other stuff but not sure which was correct)

Can someone suggest (or at least point me in the right direction) to correct/install this "apper". I am using openSUSE 12.1 and KDE 4.7.2

Thanks

**VampirD** · 23-Aug-2012, 08:14

Wrexxman wrote:
>
> Howdy everyone,
>
> I have downloaded "'ooRexx-4.1.1-opensuse1140.i586.rpm'
> (http://tinyurl.com/cbqbg2r)" to my system, double click on it within
> Dolphin to install, but then I get this popup message,
>
>
>
> - " Sorry - Dolphin " (title of
> message box)
> - " KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/apper' " (body of the message)
>
>
>
> I have looked in /usr/bin to confirm that "apper" is not there. I
> looked for "apper" in the install/remove software, but could not see it
> (there was other stuff but not sure which was correct)
>
> Can someone suggest (or at least point me in the right direction) to
> correct/install this "apper".
>
> Thanks
>
>
If you don't have apper, don't install it, if you have it, remove it,
also remove all packagekit you can found

to install the rpm file open a Konsole and type:

Code:

su - -c "zypper in
/path/to/your/downloaded/file/ooRexx-4.1.1-opensuse1140.i586.rpm"

**Wrexxman** · 23-Aug-2012, 08:17

I guess that I should have waited before posting. After doing some more tinkering, I was able to install the download using "zypper install ooRexx-4.1.1-opensuse1140.i586.rpm", I did find "apper" after all but the uninstall/install did not solve the problem. Guess I will be sticking with zypper.

**Wrexxman** · 23-Aug-2012, 08:19

Thanks, I will delete (with malice) apper.

**hcvv** · 23-Aug-2012, 08:50

Use zypper and/or Apache > Software > Software managment.

And doesn't Dolphin on right click on the RPM offer you an option like "Install with YaST"?

dd@home.dk · 23-Aug-2012, 08:58

On 08/23/2012 05:26 PM, Wrexxman wrote:
> Guess I will be sticking with zypper.

apper is one part of the end-to-end package management
system...personally i removed it from my system long ago...but, some
leave it installed and running because today it is the only thing
available which will check to see if there are new updates available and
will wave the flag where there are!

those folks who leave it running as a signal usually then put apper back
to sleep (while watching for more updates) and use YaST Online Update
(YOU) or "zypper patch" to flow the new updates to their system..

personally, i just run YOU daily to see if there are new updates (some
folks say weekly is often enough)..

also there is a way to automatically prompt YOU to run on a schedule you
pick by installing with YaST Software Management the package named
yast2-online-update-configuration....then the next time you open the
YaST Control Center you will see the configuration scheduling module..

by the way: double clicking on a downloaded executable is the so old
fashioned Windows way of doing things (and one of the reasons it is so
easy to cripple that OS)...get familiar with both zypper and YaST which
draw from openSUSE repos known to contain safe software... you could
begin with that here:

http://doc.opensuse.org/documentatio....software.html

its too bad that we didn't have a rexx package for you....but, there are
thousand and thousands of free software packages available and we can't
have them all ready packed for our repos...so . . .

--
dd http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat