Sorry. I’m such a noob. I never seem to find the right file or program to open things
Some information that may be helpful is what version of openSUSE are you running, and what repositories do you have installed?
I’m not going to say I have the answer, I am just getting into openSUSE now myself, but there is the Tumbleweed repository that is rolling-release (meaning it is updating as applications do regardless of openSUSE version). I don’t know if they otherwise update applications in-between releases either in the official repositories or in Packman.
Am 17.11.2011 20:46, schrieb dragonbite:
>
> Some information that may be helpful is what version of openSUSE are
> you running, and what repositories do you have installed?
>
> I’m not going to say I have the answer, I am just getting into
> openSUSE now myself, but there is the Tumbleweed repository that is
> rolling-release (meaning it is updating as applications do regardless
> of openSUSE version). I don’t know if they otherwise update
> applications in-between releases either in the official repositories
> or in Packman.
>
There are special extra repositories for people who want to have more up
to date versions like this one
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_12.1
replace the 12.1 at the end with 11.4 if you need it for 11.4 it has
Firefox 8 and Thunderbird 8.
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Which one will be more up-to-date and which will be more stable for openSUSE specifically? Or is there little to no difference?
Am 17.11.2011 21:36, schrieb dragonbite:
>> There are special extra repositories for people who want to have
>> more up to date versions like this one ‘Index of
>> /repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_12.1’
>> (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_12.1)
>> replace the 12.1 at the end with 11.4 if you need it for 11.4 it
>> has Firefox 8 and Thunderbird 8.
>
> Which one will be more up-to-date and which will be more stable for
> openSUSE specifically? Or is there little to no difference?
>
Which ones do you compare now? For mozilla software the mozilla repo is
the first choice and of course it has to be the one with the same
version number in it as your distro has. The 11.4 mozilla repo contains
the same software versions as the 12.1 repo just built for 11.4 instead
of 12.1 (same goes for 11.3 until it will be end of life) or did I
understand your question wrong?
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On 2011-11-17 20:46, dragonbite wrote:
> I’m not going to say I have the answer, I am just getting into openSUSE
> now myself, but there is the Tumbleweed repository that is
Tumbleweed is not recommended for novices.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 2011-11-17 20:46, carnuck wrote:
>
> Sorry. I’m such a noob. I never seem to find the right file or program
> to open things
Just use YaST online update, you will get the latest and stable FF when
available.
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Carlos E. R.
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On 11/17/2011 10:18 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> Just use YaST online update, you will get the latest and stable FF when
> available.
hello to the others in this thread! above is the correct answer for
all fairly new to Linux or openSUSE…
you do not have to do anything out of the normal, stable, dependable
FOUR repos mentioned in the paragraph beginning with “IMPORTANT!” here
http://tinyurl.com/33qc9vu
i’ve been using SuSE, SUSE and openSUSE since 9.x and today i have only
those four repo’s enabled…and i have Firefox 8 and Thunderbird
3.1.16 installed (via the update repo) simply by running YaST Online
Update…
stable, dependable, predictable…smooth and easy.
if you prefer excitement and make-work then update/upgrade from multiple
repos until the system is broken . . .
ymmv
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Thanks Carlos E. R, and DenverD for confirming!
My mileage varied, since Thunderbird 8 is the most recent, stable, and dependable release of Thunderbird, and can be found in the OBS - Mozilla repository.
On 11/18/2011 03:36 PM, rafter22 wrote:
> My mileage varied, since Thunderbird 8 is the most recent, stable, and
> dependable release of Thunderbird, and can be found in the OBS - Mozilla
> repository.
it will be ‘released’ for openSUSE 11.4 when it comes through the update
repo…and, then it will be loaded here…after early adopters (like
yourself) have confirmed (or not) that it kinda works…
‘released’ is as early as i test on my production machine…
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On 2011-11-19 00:58, DenverD wrote:
> On 11/18/2011 03:36 PM, rafter22 wrote:
>> My mileage varied, since Thunderbird 8 is the most recent, stable, and
>> dependable release of Thunderbird, and can be found in the OBS - Mozilla
>> repository.
>
> it will be ‘released’ for openSUSE 11.4 when it comes through the update
> repo…and, then it will be loaded here…after early adopters (like
> yourself) have confirmed (or not) that it kinda works…
No, Thunderbird will not be upgraded, the maintainer said so. No reason to
do it, because the 3.x version we are using is still maintained.
Which is different that what happens with FF, upstream forces up to upgrade.
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On 11/19/2011 01:08 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> No, Thunderbird will not be upgraded, the maintainer said so. No reason to
> do it, because the 3.x version we are using is still maintained.
>
> Which is different that what happens with FF, upstream forces up to upgrade.
ok, that is good for me…my 3.x works fine and i can’t imagine what
might be better about v8…
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Am 19.11.2011 00:58, schrieb DenverD:
> it will be ‘released’ for openSUSE 11.4 when it comes through the update
> repo…and, then it will be loaded here…after early adopters (like
> yourself) have confirmed (or not) that it kinda works…
>
I have to disagree a bit: The mozilla repo is not for “early adopters”
it is just a convenience for the people who want the latest stable
mozilla software, not something to play with or test or experiment, for
that we have the mozilla beta repository.
Stable means here what mozilla defines as stable version of course. That
the oss repo does not ship that same version at the same time has as far
as I know nothing to do with the stability of the software but with the
general policy not to switch to a newer version as long as the old one
is supported.
There is of course also absolutely nothing wrong with going the more
conservative way and use the versions from oss and I agree it is a save
recommendation for new users who are likely not able to deal with a
problem (using the mozilla repos on three machines now for about a year
I never had a problem which I had to fix though).
As everybody knows any update can sometimes break something which is
best avoided by not updating but only applying the security patches,
nothing wrong with that but not the only way.
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On 2011-11-19 01:18, Martin Helm wrote:
> As everybody knows any update can sometimes break something which is
> best avoided by not updating but only applying the security patches,
> nothing wrong with that but not the only way.
But for FF is almost as good, we get the updated versions of FF as
necessary. It is an exception.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)