Re: [SLE] secondary distro's

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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 02:20:22 +0800
To: "lerninlinux@comcast.net" <lerninlinux@comcast.net>

Look below for an important correction...

On 11/21/05, Vincente Aggrippino <vaggrippino@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 11/16/05, lerninlinux@comcast.net <lerninlinux@comcast.net > wrote:
> >
> > I guess I should define playing! I am very happy with Suse, and switched
> > to it from Mandrake (after that whole Linux Format bad cd fiasco). I am
> > wanting to learn more about Linux in general, and get more comfortable with
> > NONRPM based distro's. The reasons for my three choices were Gentoo makes me
> > learn more about Linux's base (how to do things from scratch) and gives me
> > experience with another "package manager" (emerge). Knoppix and Ubuntu
> > teaches me about debian and apt. I am not comfortable enough now to switch
> > from one to another, and would eventually like to be. I've been on Suse
> > since 9.0 (just went 10) and it works and is stable, the only reason I
> > still have a Windows machine is for the games.
>
>
> I have used Fedora, Ubuntu, and Knoppix. I've used some Unix OSs, too. I'm
> relatively new to SuSE.
>
> I'll recommend a slightly less extreme first step... Pick one of your
> favorite programs that you use on SuSE, or even one that you don't use yet,
> and download the latest version in a tarball. Then compile it and make it
> run from your home directory. That's a good start and it's a method that
> works for all of the distros (I think).
>
> From what I have heard, you'll be doing a lot of compiling on Gentoo or
> Slackware :)
>
> For the ones that work as documented in the generic instructions, you can
> do something like this and it'll all work:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/home/sloncho
>

Use this instead. Otherwise, it'll really compile in your home directory...
./configure --prefix=/home/sloncho/program_name

make
> make install
>
> That often works, but the learning starts when it doesn't. If you get
> error messages, read them carefully. They might look like junk, but they
> actually mean something. They usually have file names and line numbers. Look
> up all of the error messages in Google.
>
> One of the biggest differences between the Linux world and that horrible
> place without penguins is software installation. You don't usually install
> programs on Linux in the same way. You compile them for your system. If
> you're using an RPM, someone did the compiling for you on a system just like
> yours. I've used Apt, Debian's (and Ubuntu's) package manager. I don't
> really know how that works, but I believe the concept is similar. There's
> not a lot to learn there... just click the check-boxes for the software you
> want to install.
>
> Have fun :)
>
> -- Vince
>

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