[ale] SUSE package manager and install empathy

[Damon Chesser]

On 2/14/2011 11:02 PM, James Sumners wrote:
> SuSE 5.1 or 5.2 was the first distro I used. Then Debian Hamm (which
> relied on the horrible deselect), followed by Red Hat 6.0/6.1. Later,
> I gave OpenSUSE 10.0/10.1 and some Fedora versions. Of the RPM
> distros, I like OpenSUSE the best. However, I have found that the apt
> imitations to be painfully slow updating their database and installing
> packages. Also, unless it has been fixed, the net installer for
> OpenSUSE is just about useless.
>
> If I remember correctly, you had to know the full path to the boot
> image on the remote server so that you could type it yourself. And
> then it would be a gamble if it actually worked without trying it
> several times.
>
> YaST has always been the best feature of SUSE.

At the risk of starting flames:  Really?  Yast was the thing I always 
wanted to like about suse, but everytime I fired it up, it would take 
for ever, maybe some yast function would work, most often it would not.  
I kept trying various versions of suse, same results.    Chased me right 
off of it.  Never been back.
> On Monday, February 14, 2011, Chuck Payne<terrorpup at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> SUSE come a long way guys. It rock solid and very easy. Zypper is as
>> equal to Apt-get. Now, the different with SLE and openSUSE, there are
>> ton of repos, the dependency hell, I haven't had that issue. RPM's are
>> systems have come a long way. I don't know of anything equal to Space
>> Walk or Auto-Yast for Debain. Remember, if it's Enterprise the two
>> that companies use are Red Hat ( CentOS ) and SUSE Linux Enterprise
>>
>> RPM are very easy too, as easy as .deb and apt-get. You want a power
>> package manager you need to try Zypper.
>>
>> Chuck