[LBo] Pakcage management in Suse [WAS:how to open chm file on Suse]

[Lazy Logic]

If you are using SUSE and trying to into a rpm that you've downloaded,
just right click on the file and choose Actions -> Install with YaST

dependencies will be sorted out by YaST.


Cheers
Lazy


On 10/16/06, Stefan Waidele <Stefan at waidele.info> wrote:
>
> Emen Zhao schrieb:
> > [...]
> > I feel like one hard part of using Linux is the dependencies amongst
> > packages. When installing an application (such as xchmviewer, or
> > kchmviewer), it is difficult to figure out which packages should be
> > installed before that.
>
> If you install your packages using Yast, it should tell you what you
> need. Especially if the application is part of the distribution (as I
> thought kchmviewer was)
>
> Or do you install with plain "rpm -i ..."?
>
> There is something like "apt4rpm". I have not used it myself, but apt is
> a very good tool to install packages with its heritage in Debian.
> It is one reason why I kept trying debian-derivatives and finally landed
> at Ubuntu.
>
> Nothing beats a quick "apt-get install whateverUwant"...
>
> Stefan
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