I’ve foolishly bought an HP netbook with SUSE 10 installed. It took 3 hours of tapping to get the machine to find my home network but somehow it is working and i can get onto the web. I need Skype and have downloaded the relevant software but it wont install, after loads of searching i found a page on here which says what i will need before installing skype. It says.
What the hell is that all about? where do i get them? how do i install them? If it is code, where again do i put it? I’m sorry to sound so hacked off but i cant believe something could be this difficult. Any help please?
Mike
Just open a terminal (found under System in the application menu) and then do su at the prompt (it will ask for your root password) and then copy and paste the above. Zypper will then install those items.
speedbird1300 adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to write:
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> I’ve foolishly bought an HP netbook with SUSE 10 installed. It took 3
> hours of tapping to get the machine to find my home network but
> somehow it is working and i can get onto the web. I need Skype and
> have downloaded the relevant software but it wont install, after loads
> of searching i found a page on here which says what i will need before
> installing skype. It says.
>
> zypper install libqt4 libqt-x11 libqt4-dbus-1 libsigc++2
>
> What the hell is that all about? where do i get them? how do i install
> them? If it is code, where again do i put it? I’m sorry to sound so
> hacked off but i cant believe something could be this difficult. Any
> help please?
> Mike
>
>
Are you sure that it is SuSE 10?
If so then I would personally think about installing a newer version.
10 is too old now and no longer supported so to save the hassle of
having to get all the software by hand it would be easier.
Mark,
Thanks for that, Yes i think i have 10.3 as i have a sticker on the netbook saying 10. as for going to 11 i really don’t know about that as i know absolutley nothing with a capital N about this OS.
There does appear to be a particular shortage of step by step instructions on this subject.
caf4926 thanks for your bit as well but what does that mean exactly?
Thanks again Caf4926 but i have already been there and have no clue what to do next. I have looked at all the stuff in there and there is not anything the same as what i need. There are some similar but not the same.
Also what does
"Software Repos
add by url method
Just assign any name you like to it
finish"
Mean?
Do you know what the size of suse 11 is as i might be able to download it and put it on a USB key and install from there.
you MOST likely have SUSE 10, which IS SUPPORTED, and current…an up
to date and STABLE commercial, enterprise quality Operating System…
DO NOT REPEAT DO NOT install openSUSE 11.anything over the top
of it trying to get “a better” system…
instead, recognize you are in the wrong forum…you are in the
openSUSE forum, you need to be in the commercial side of Novell
<http://forums.novell.com/> where, i think you will find the help you
seek…
and, LOTs of step by steps leading to pure happiness!!
Speedbird: Press ctrl-alt-f1 and you should see a command prompt if it is an openSuse. Tell us what version it says. Press ctrl-alt-f7 or just alt-f7 to get back to where you were.
BIG THANK YOU’S to Assistant. You saved me a load of wasted time. I went to the novell site and within an hour i had Skype running…sort of. I was downloading the totally incorrect version when in here.
This is obviously not a site for me, but thought i would come back and thank you all for helping.
Good day!
assistant adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to write:
> folks need to pay attention to exactly what the poster writes…and,
> remember that SUSE 10 and openSuse 1x.x are VERY different animals…
>
> telling someone to ‘upgrade’ their SLED 10 to openSUSE 11.2 is not
> what they need to hear.
>
Quote ¨I’ve foolishly bought an HP netbook with SUSE 10 installed¨
…
The poster stated SuSE 10 which then WAS SuSE 10 not SLED nor OpenSuSE.
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 11:21 +0000, Baskitcaise wrote:
> assistant adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to write:
>
> > folks need to pay attention to exactly what the poster writes…and,
> > remember that SUSE 10 and openSuse 1x.x are VERY different animals…
> >
> > telling someone to ‘upgrade’ their SLED 10 to openSUSE 11.2 is not
> > what they need to hear.
> >
>
> Quote ¨I’ve foolishly bought an HP netbook with SUSE 10 installed¨
> .
> The poster stated SuSE 10 which then WAS SuSE 10 not SLED nor OpenSuSE.
True, but you should know that NO laptop from HP comes with openSUSE
installed. NONE.
And only a couple with SLED. With that said (hint to Novell) look for
a ton of offerings from HP in the near future with Ubuntu.