On 06/07/2011 08:36 AM, tomcummings wrote:
>
> Hi there
> I’ve been experimenting with Linux for a while but still regard myself
> as a newbie.
> I’m having issues installing Moolde on OpenSuse 11.3. I’ve downloaded
> the package but I get missing dependency issues like no mimtex needed
> and then after I resolve that I get a heap of missing pearl stuff. So do
> I assume then that the moodle package isn’t a complete install even
> though I found it on the open suse site?
i’d say the moodle is a complete moodle which obviously uses some
other packages (which are also used by other applications which you
haven’t installed yet, or maybe never—but, if you do install those
other packages needing these “dependencies” they will not be installed
again…(this is a different way than another operating system you may
encounter with (yes) ships ‘complete’ packages, and then you have
umpteen different copies of this library or that, ONE in every folder
where an application needing it lives…and, each library may be a
different age and version…what a mess!)
ok, you say you found it on the openSUSE site, but you didn’t say how
you tried to install it…
on this page http://software.opensuse.org/search if i spin to 11.3, type
in moodle it shows version 2.0.2 available…and, on the right side is a
“1-Click” install option (which leads to YaST doing all the work)
involving YaST is great because it will try to solve all those
dependencies for you, automatically…if it can…
if you already have the oss, non-oss, update and packman repos enabled
there is a chance that YaST will find what it needs…if not it will
say so, and then you can find it and make it available…
only real downside to the 1-Click is that unless you tell it to (you
will be asked) it will leave the used repo enabled…which, in my
opinion it should not…
oh, the other down side is that “1-Click” is a lie–it is about a half
dozen or more, count them!
> Can I get a complete list of
> what’s missing or what I should be installing when I install my open
> suse 11.3?
you can’t really know that because any future needed application may
still need what you don’t have, and don’t want unless you need it…i
mean it takes a LOT of hard drive space if you try to install everything…
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