On 02/09/2012 12:16 AM, Jomar808 wrote:
>
> Oh sorry sir
>
> this is where I followed
>
> http://tinyurl.com/y9d3zgr
well, there are SIX different guides at that location, scroll down and
see guides for:
openSUSE 11.0
openSUSE 11.1
openSUSE 11.2
openSUSE 11.3
openSUSE 11.4
openSUSE 12.1
which one did you use?
i doubt you will have success if you use any of those other than the
one for 12.1
> what I did because of curiosity, i installed one by one, on the command
> line
> so when I come to pass on vlc
> i searched as describe on my main post
> then I saw the VideoLAN pattern and did on what is on above
oh no! you told me earlier that you added the “VideoLAN repo” and i
don’t see one of those mentioned on any version after about 11.2!
but, in 11.3 and 11.4 i see “Take note to remove the VideoLan repo if
you have it” which to me means that that repo is DEATH to 11.3 and 11.4…
and it is not even mentioned in the 12.1 guide–which is the only one
you should follow!!
on the whole page of six guides i can’t find once where it mentions
installing a “pattern” so ???
> the sticky instructed to install vlc,
right. the 12.1 guide show how to install vlc after you have used zypper
to add the packman and libdvdcss repos for 12.1 (no where is a
VideoLAN repo mentioned…
> but just for trying out
> something, I thought I would give a try on installing the pattern
well, it is your machine and you are welcome to try out anything you
want to…but, when you decide to try out something that is not in the
guide then you need to be prepared to fix whatever you broke.
and, if you don’t think you are capable of fixing the results of your
try outs then . . . i don’t know what…maybe you can find a friend who
lives near by who is a Linux Guru and can over and look at your screen
with you and figure out what you did and then maybe help you fix it…
> I hope that cleared everything sir
kinda does, but because i have to guess that you didn’t follow the
12.1 guide, i do not know what kind of damage you may have done to your
system…but, now back to your original questions:
Q1. “how do I install a package?”
A1. follow the guide, how-to or documentation for the version you are
using.
Q2. did I do something wrong here?
A2. yes, you tried to follow the wrong guide and it is therefore that
your zypper command returned “‘VideoLAN’ not found in package names. . .
… Nothing to do.”
Q3: “thought it would be much better install the pattern than the
individual packages itself . . . so I asked, is it ok or bad idea?”
A3: bad idea to use the wrong guide. and bad idea to experiment if
unable to fix the problems an experiment may cause.
on the other hand, if you have a bullet proof backup, know how to
restore it, and want to experiment to see what happens–go ahead and do
it…HOWEVER, if you break your system everyday in experimentation you
should not expect to come here and find an easy fix…there are SO
many different possibilities of versions, DEs, settings, software mixes
and ways the inattentive experimenter can murder a system…that it is
just impossible for the potential helpers to guess what you did (which
guide you followed) and then tell you how to undo it…
by the way, i never did find written in any of those guides the exact
command you gave: “sudo zypper in -t pattern VideoLAN” so it is
impossible for me to find which guide you actually followed? BUT, i can
tell it is not a guide written by caf4926 because he never uses the
incorrect “sudo zypper [something]” he instead uses the correct sequence of
su -
zypper [something]
> Long Live Linux!!!
Linux is 20 years old…and, this year S.u.S.E., SuSE, SUSE (the
commercial side of openSUSE) has its 20th birthday…it will live long,
no doubt about that.
–
DD http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat
Read what Distro Watch writes: http://tinyurl.com/SUSEonDW
