Re: [spam] Re: [Synaptic-devel] Opera 7.50?

[Albert]

On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:43, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
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> I would suggest to just click "install" in the package control area
> or via the context menu :)

Thanks, I'll try that.

>
> Does Opera ship with SuSE 9.0 or do use a third parity repository?

I installed SuSE 9.0 from FTP.  I have no SuSE disks other than the one 
I burned in order to install from FTP.  When I install additional 
packages using YAST2 I have no idea where they are coming from. 
Synaptic apparently installs from a variety of repositories, but I 
haven't yet figured out how to tell where they are coming from either.
So in reply to your question, (1) I have no idea what is on the SuSE CDs 
and (2) yes, I must be using a repository somewhere.

I know that I must sound like a clueless dufus.  I just came from a year 
and a half of LinuxFromScratch installations.  I have no problem with 
compiling/installing tarballs when I know the system intimately.  But 
SuSE, YAST2 and Synaptic are just magical black boxes to me.

I had no idea that high level distributions like SuSE and high level 
tools like YAST and Synaptic, designed for end users, were so complex 
and hard to understand.

-- 
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of 
thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, 
because there will be no words in which to express it."
    -- George Orwell as Syme in "1984"