[ale] SUSE package manager and install empathy

[James Sumners]

It's an RPM distro. Which means, despite it being otherwise great,
it's an abhorrent nightmare to deal with.

On Monday, February 14, 2011, Narahari 'n' Savitha <savithari at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have SLED.  It is what I have to use.  The way I understand from the pics I sent, system is looking for an ent. cd instead of going online to look for the packages.
>
> I just want to tell SLED, that instead of CD go to the gatech or novell site (since I am using ent and not open suse).
>
> One more thing, is SLED close to Redhat in terms of package aka rpm's or close to .deb's.
>
> Like if a software can be installed on Redhat (in my case MyEclipse) can it be instaled on SLED ?  What do I need to do for this to work right ?
>
> Thank you for your time and attention.
>
> -Narahari

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