Moving /usr/local away sounds a good idea. Will change the partition at next update, maybe 12.2?
On 08/31/2012 02:36 PM, sebyan wrote:
> Still need to figure out how to get rid of the duplicate texlive
did you install either or both of those with YaST?
if not, why not? (i ask because YaST Software Management here shows that
texlive is available in the repos…
go there and see if one or both of those you have installed are shown in
YaST…if so, just mark the one you don’t want for delete…
in openSUSE it is almost always easier (and a LOT safer and more stable)
to install the latest available in the standard repos…
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dd
I installed texlive-2011 with YaST but installed the recently released texlive-2012 with command line as I couldn’t find it from the update service. The 2011 has been uninstalled from YaST and both have been ‘rm -rf’ from /usr/local. Now 2012 has been installed to a directory in /home/… Hope it won’t bring me other troubles.
YaST has always been the 1st choice for sure but sometimes I have to use rpm or so to get some software installed/updated, say Opera 12.02 today. The popup reminder suggests me to use the system upgrade service but I just can’t find it in YaST. Not sure if I don’t really know how to use it:shame:
Am 03.09.2012 13:06, schrieb sebyan:
> I installed texlive-2011 with YaST but installed the recently released
> texlive-2012 with command line as I couldn’t find it from the update
> service.
As you say it is bleeding edge (= curently released), you find such
things in factory
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Publishing:/TeXLive
no idea if that would be compatible with 12.1 though.
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PC: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.8.4 | GeForce GT 420
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.8.4 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 12.1 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10
I have never tried rpms from factory, but thanks any way:)
Am 03.09.2012 18:46, schrieb sebyan:
> I have never tried rpms from factory, but thanks any way:)
Be very careful when you try factory software, there is no guarantee
that it works, it is mainly for testing. So if you want to try it do it
first for example in a virtual machine and not your production
environment. I just wanted tell you that this exists.
There is nothing wrong with installing software from source or as you
did it with a binary installer from upstream. You noticed of course that
this means to be careful what that installer does (like in your case not
uninstalling the old version which you need to do manually).
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PC: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.8.4 | GeForce GT 420
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.8.4 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 12.1 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10
If you get packages from factory be sure that you don’t keep it active you don’t want updates from the factory. That can ruin your day quick.
On 2012-09-03 19:26, gogalthorp wrote:
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> If you get packages from factory be sure that you don’t keep it active
> you don’t want updates from the factory. That can ruin your day quick.
Or leave it at a low priority and do not use dup.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
Hi guys, much appreciated for your kind advices. I don’t think I’ll mess with the factory rpms:)
On 2012-09-04 11:36, sebyan wrote:
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> Hi guys, much appreciated for your kind advices. I don’t think I’ll mess
> with the factory rpms:)
You can use them, they are as safe or more than what you did or compiling from source. But you have
to take precautions against replacing system packages with experimental versions that render your
system inoperable. Just install from factory the packages you really want.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))