Hi guys,
At my university we have a computer cluster running on opensuse 10.3. As of a couple months the official 10.3 repositories no longer work making it hell trying to find software packages. Does anyone know of a working 10.3 repository?
Hi
Should be something here
http://en.opensuse.org/Mirrors_discontinued_releases#openSUSE_10.3
You might want to rsync it locally in case it too disappears.
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whitethorn wrote:
> Does anyone know of a working 10.3 repository?
good time to move your cluster off of the unsupported 10.3 (support
ended 31 Oct 2009, cite: http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Linux_Lifetime)
it is not exposed to the internet, is it? (it is already several
months away from the last security update)
consider supporting open source and Linux by moving to SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server 11 (SLES 11) provided and supported from Novell.com
how much does the University send to Redmond Washington each year?
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palladium
Thanx for the link I’m going to try it out tonight.
The cluster is not connected to the internet at least it’s not accessible from the internet. I’ll pass on the idea of going to sles but I’m not sure they want to. Thanx for the help though.
Background: I have a lot of experience on Ubuntu, but none on opensuse.
Quick question, I tried adding it and it said that I needed a valid domain name.
What should I put in all the boxes?
(as noob like as it sounds)
aerospace guy wrote:
> What should I put in all the boxes?
you do know that 10.2 is no longer supported, right?
but, you were given:
http://en.opensuse.org/Mirrors_discontinued_releases#openSUSE_10.3
go there and see:
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/10.3/
click on that and see two folders, one named iso the other
repo…click on repo and then see five folders…
you want to add only two of them to your YaST, oss and non-oss:
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/10.3/repo/non-oss/
what to put in each box is (i think) well covered in the documentation
in the wiki, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Yast
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palladium
I know it’s not supported. Ansys 11.0 won’t run on the newer suse 11’s according to ansys so I’m having to use 10.3
Not sure if that’s what happened, but don’t select the link’s text from the forum message (it gets truncated), but instead right-click and copy the link, or click on the link and then copy the URL from the browser.
With the support cycle for openSUSE getting shorter and shorter, I believe we may see more and more of cases where users go looking for repositories for openSUSE versions that are no longer supported.
I note on the Packman mailing list, some users looking for the Packman repositories for 10.3, which of course have been taken down. 11.0 is not far in time from being in the same position as 10.3. The response of one of the Packman packagers was, who was going to pay to keep an old repository such as 10.3 ?
What might be useful is an organization (or person) with sufficient budget to copy the OSS, Non-OSS, Update, and Packman repository for old (no longer supported) openSUSE versions just prior to support being withdrawn (and the OSS, Non-OSS, Update and Packman hosted repositories deleted). And then make the repository available for users who for one reason or another find an update to the latest openSUSE is not practical.
Its quite possibly not a cheap proposition, as in addition to server space considerations, there are also bandwidth limitations. And hence the community will need to rely on volunteers here.