suse 9.1, installing new programs...

Fabiogump · 09-Oct-2005, 07:54 PM #1

okay, linux newbie here...

I got suse 9.1 home running on my computer, I'm finally getting around to installing prgrams and I've run into a little snag.

my first attempt at installing the latest firefox tarball was okay. I got the program installed, but it's in my home/user directory, I don't think this was quite right.

I downloaded a few RPM's and was trying to install them with Yast, but it can't find them. Firefox downloaded them to my /home directory, why that happeded I don't know.

I was thinking about updating my version KDE with Yast, but that didn't seem to work either. I think it was trying to update suse for some reason.

anyone know what's going on or at least point me in the rigt direction?

CouchMaster · 09-Oct-2005, 08:24 PM #2

I believe you click on one of those RPMs and a window will open asking if you want to install with yast - click yes and there you go...

Fabiogump · 09-Oct-2005, 08:49 PM #3

I've tried that...yast 2 flashes for about 2 seconds and nothing. I do a search for gaim(for example and find nothing.

CouchMaster · 09-Oct-2005, 09:38 PM #4

Perhaps you have a bad install - did you DL and burn the ISO, or did you purchase a disk? If the latter, did you run a MD5 checksum on the ISO?

Fabiogump · 09-Oct-2005, 09:52 PM #5

I had a sinking feeling you would say that. It's the ISO off linuxiso.org. I already had one bad burn off this ISO, I figured it was from the batch of CDs I was using.

I still have the iso file in my winXP partition, how do I check it out?

CouchMaster · 09-Oct-2005, 10:09 PM #6

http://forums.techguy.org:80/t352330...+checksum.html
There should have been a checksum number listed with the ISO - and you run the MD5 checker on the ISO you DL'ed (see at the links above) and compare the number you get with the one the they say it's supposed to be. If they match you know you have a good DL.

And, for the record, I run 9.1 pro and think that SuSE is about the best distro you can have! So don't give up...

Fabiogump · 09-Oct-2005, 11:02 PM #7

okay I downloaded Accuhash and it looks like from what I can tell everything checks out. so, it doesn't look like a bad iso.

CouchMaster · 09-Oct-2005, 11:30 PM #8

Geeze, then I don't know - maybe you can find the answer here...
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...?s=&forumid=60

Fabiogump · 09-Oct-2005, 11:53 PM #9

okay just to make sure here's the screenshot from my computer, just in case I'm not reading this right.

I rechecked the md5sum from linuxiso.org...

c1973f88b5ec21d375c936a59dce097d SUSE-9.1-personal-x86.iso

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