Is Suse 9.3 really that good?

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Last time I tried SuSe (probably roughly a year ago), it did look nice and all, but due to the lack of an equivalent to Synaptic/apt-get in Ubuntu/Debian, it only took me a couple of hours to run into the dreaded dependency hell. Have they added an equivalent to apt-get by now or are you still required to go RPM hunting?

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SuSE uses YAST for its package manager. You can download Synaptic (I did) and it works fine, but YAST (IMHO) works better and gets the dependencies you may need...... I have not had to go RPM hunting except for strange programs that were "off the beaten track". Most of the time, I just Googled and found a source site to add to YAST that had all of the packages I needed. :yes:

As far as the actual distro, SuSE works very well. I have 9.2 Pro and it has always found my computer's hardware and configured it correctly. Reviews are on Distrowatch.

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SuSE has apt4rpm which is equivalent of a package manager taking care of most of the dependency hell.

For more information:

http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/index.orig.html

Easy install guide:

http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/article/install_apt4rpm.php

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Has anyone with a via velocity onboard network card tried Suse yet? I tried 9.2 but the network driver kept playing up (connecting/disconnecting from the network randomly).

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This is a kernel driver issue and not a SuSE one, there has been a lot of discussion over this issue and apparently it is fixable by using a patch/seperate velocity kernel module.

I do not have this controller so I cannot verify.

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Well, I finally managed to download the five CD images (the DVD image gave me trouble and when I got around to installing FreshDownload it quit at 3,9 gigs, telling me the remote file had been changed.)

Well, the distro is looking pretty nice (and took an eternity to install) but get this:

my mouse's not working. I have a PS2 mouse which the installer, too, failed to recognise. Adding it manually fixed the problem, though.

Now the damn thing's finally installed, but still mouse no worky. As I don't want to believe this is the distro's fault, here's where I probably screwed up: I added my Wacom Intuos 1 to SUSE's input devices during the installation process which SUSE seems to be trying to use as my primary input device, except that it doesn't seem to work with SUSE, moving the pen does nothing. (It worked fine in Ubuntu, though.)

To cut a long story short: how do I reconfigure SUSE to let it know to use my PS2 mouse as its primary input device? I really don't want to install the whole thing again. Isn't there a command to reconfigure the X server? Without a mouse, I can't really do much in Linux, I'm afraid.

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Login as root from first shell (CTRL+ALT+F1 to hop into it from X).

pico /etc/sysconfig/mouse

Fix accordingly to your mouse. Run SuSEconfig (note capitals).

Restart or try to restart X with: rcxdm restart

OR:

You can also run "sax2" to edit your X preferences.

Type sax2 -r to start fresh without a hardware database.

If this does not work, you may need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but let's see if these help first.

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Does anyone know a quick way to get a printer on another computer, wirelessly networked to my computer, to print on SUSE?

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My brain is jello at the moment due to the heat so let me get this straight before I say anything :D

Printer<->PC with Windows(?)<->WLAN<->PC with SUSE?

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Ok, fixed the mouse problem. I must say, this seems pretty nice, I like the "Novell edition" of Open Office and this is the first distro I've tried where even typing Japanese works out of the box.

Two problems, though:My SB Live is completely silent and when I try to install RPMs from my hard drive, whatever application I'm trying to use simply quits. If I try "RPM -i", nothing happens.

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Damn, I'm stupid, perhaps I ought to stop trying to install RPMs for 64-bit processors. :p

I still really miss having apt, though, I tried to install a Rosegarden RPM but it didn't work because I have no clue how to get hold of the libmad.so package it depends on.

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