[ale] Suse Questions please clear my confusion

Keith Bastin kbastin at mindspring.com
Thu Sep 12 09:40:43 EDT 2013


When you register your sles server with suse_register (or in Yast) it 
should add the update repositories. You should see them listed with 
'zypper ca'
If the packages you need are available in an available repository then 
it should install automatically.




D3600:~ # zypper ca
#  | Alias                                     | Name | Enabled | Refresh
---+-------------------------------------------+-------------------------------- 
-----------------------+---------+--------
  1 | PK_TMP_DIR                                | PK_TMP_DIR | Yes     | Yes
  2 | SLE11-SDK-DISK2                           | SUSE Linux Enterprise 
Software Development Kit 11 SP2 | Yes     | No
  3 | SLES11SDK-DISK1                           | SUSE Linux Enterprise 
Software Development Kit 11 SP2 | Yes     | No
  4 | SLES11SP2-DISK2                           | SLES11SP2-DISK2 | 
Yes     | No
  5 | SLES11SP2-DISK2_1                         | SUSE Linux Enterprise 
Software Development Kit 11 SP2 | Yes     | No
  6 | nu_novell_com:SLE11-SDK-SP1-Pool          | SLE11-SDK-SP1-Pool | 
Yes     | Yes
  7 | nu_novell_com:SLE11-SDK-SP1-Updates       | SLE11-SDK-SP1-Updates 
| Yes     | Yes
  8 | nu_novell_com:SLE11-SDK-SP2-Core          | SLE11-SDK-SP2-Core | 
Yes     | Yes
  9 | nu_novell_com:SLE11-SDK-SP2-Updates       | SLE11-SDK-SP2-Updates 
| Yes     | Yes
10 | nu_novell_com:SLE11-SP1-Debuginfo-Pool    | 
SLE11-SP1-Debuginfo-Pool | No      | Yes
11 | nu_novell_com:SLE11-SP1-Debuginfo-Updates | 
SLE11-SP1-Debuginfo-Updates | No      | Yes
12 | nu_novell_com:SLE11-SP2-Debuginfo-Core    | 
SLE11-SP2-Debuginfo-Core | No      | Yes
13 | nu_novell_com:SLE11-SP2-Debuginfo-Updates | 
SLE11-SP2-Debuginfo-Updates | No      | Yes
14 | nu_novell_com:SLE11-WebYaST-SP2-Pool      | SLE11-WebYaST-SP2-Pool 
| No      | Yes
15 | nu_novell_com:SLE11-WebYaST-SP2-Updates   | 
SLE11-WebYaST-SP2-Updates | No      | Yes
16 | nu_novell_com:SLES11-Extras               | SLES11-Extras | No      
| Yes
17 | nu_novell_com:SLES11-SP1-Pool             | SLES11-SP1-Pool | 
Yes     | Yes
18 | nu_novell_com:SLES11-SP1-Updates          | SLES11-SP1-Updates | 
Yes     | Yes
19 | nu_novell_com:SLES11-SP2-Core             | SLES11-SP2-Core | 
Yes     | Yes
20 | nu_novell_com:SLES11-SP2-Extension-Store  | 
SLES11-SP2-Extension-Store | Yes     | Yes
21 | nu_novell_com:SLES11-SP2-Updates          | SLES11-SP2-Updates | 
Yes     | Yes


On 9/12/2013 9:15 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> Thank you.  It helped.  It lists the dependencies.  But how can I tell 
> SUSE that
>
> "ok you now know your dependencies, go and download them and install 
> them for me"
>
> I am sure it involves adding the software.suse.org 
> <http://software.suse.org> as a repo but please guide me for the first 
> few steps.
>
> Regards,
> -Narahari
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:32 PM, James Taylor 
> <James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com 
> <mailto:James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com>> wrote:
>
>     zypper info --requires <packagename>
>     -jt
>
>
>
>     James Taylor
>     678-697-9420 <tel:678-697-9420>
>     james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com <mailto:james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com>
>
>
>
>     >>> "Narahari 'n' Savitha" <savithari at gmail.com
>     <mailto:savithari at gmail.com>> 9/11/2013   09:00 PM
>     >>>
>     Friends:
>
>     Our Linux Eng team released a new Secure Build for our internal usage.
>
>     It is SLES 11SP2 (dont ask me why we are so behind).
>
>     I installed it and brought up the os.
>
>     The svn it comes with is 1.6 but I tried to see if I can move to 1.8
>
>     I was told, verbatim
>
>     > =======================================
>     > If you need 1.7, you need to compile your own, or possibly download
>     the
>     > version from software.opensuse.org <http://software.opensuse.org>.
>     >
>     > If you go to opensuse.org <http://opensuse.org>, someone has
>     compiled and packaged version
>     > 1.7.10 and 1.7.5 and 1.8.3 for SLES 11 SP2.  RLSE and SUSE will not
>     support
>     > those versions, so it’ll work on best-effort support that you can
>     provide.
>     > There’s another team using subversion in ADP, and you should
>     probably talk
>     > to them about how they’ve installed the newer versions on their
>     systems..
>     >
>     > My recommendation is to at least upgrade to July 2013 to get SLES 11
>     SP2,
>     > then if you require 1.7 instead of the 1.6 that SP2 SDK provides, go
>     > download the subversion and subversion-server packages needed from
>     > software.opensuse.org <http://software.opensuse.org> for SLES 11
>     SP2.
>     > ===========================
>
>
>     To follow them I did the next set of steps.
>
>     --------------------------------------------------------
>
>     >wget
>     http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/vrg:/subversion/SLE_11_SP2/x86_64/subversion-1.8.3-124.2.x86_64.rpm
>
>
>     >sudo rpm -ivh subversion-1.8.3-124.2.x86_64.rpm
>     warning: subversion-1.8.3-124.2.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature:
>     NOKEY,
>     key ID 90d7671a
>     error: Failed dependencies:
>     libserf-1.so.0()(64bit) is needed by subversion-1.8.3-124.2.x86_64
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     As you can see above it failed and is saying Failed dependencies.
>
>     The question is:
>
>     Do I have to keep downloading each rpm and as and when the dep fails I
>     have
>     get that rpm ?
>
>     Is there a way to tell zypper to install not only the subversion rpm
>     but
>     also the missing ones only for 11SP2 ?
>
>     What is the way to say download.opensuse.org
>     <http://download.opensuse.org> is the repo but it is
>     11SP2 ?
>
>     Thank You
>     -Narahari
>
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