Moving from Debian To SuSE Linux and Back Again (OSNews)

Moving from Debian To SuSE Linux and Back Again (OSNews)

Posted Jun 15, 2004 18:15 UTC (Tue) by petebull (subscriber, #7857)
Parent article: Moving from Debian To SuSE Linux and Back Again (OSNews)

I'm maybe a bit harsh, but a Debian user which doesn't come up with

$ yast --help
--------------------------------------------------------------
(...)
exceptional case for installing packages:
/sbin/yast OPTION <package>

OPTION:
-i, --install install rpm package

<package> can be a single short package name (e.g. gvim)
which will be installed with dependency checking, or the full
path to an rpm package (e.g /tmp/gvim.rpm) which will be
installed without dependency checking
--------------------------------------------------------------

Sheesh. And the continued whining from distribution testers about the
unavailable codecs. Use free stuff. You're not even allowed to use the
Windows Media Codecs outside of a registered version of Microsoft
Windows, if I'm able to grok the licensing for that software.

Clicking on .rpm in Konqi and the above mentioned method of calling "yast
-i file.rpm" should be avoided at all costs, because NO dependency
checking will be done. You'll sure fry your system with that method.

And suse-linux@suse.com (german) or suse-linux-en@suse.com would probably
recommended installing mplayer from http://packman.links2linux.org/

I'm a very happy SuSE/Debian/Gentoo/RedHat user. Each distro has its
strength and weaknesses, and the report on osnews make me think of
someone who doesn't try very hard to solve his problems.

Peter

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