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OK, I've talked about doing this lots before, and now I've gone and done it. I've just installed Suse 9.2 64-bit on my 2nd hard drive.
And damn am I impressed! It was so much more user friendly than I was expecting - it recognised everything! It got graphics card, sound card, tv card, monitor, printer, bluetooth, the whole works!
However, it's inevitable that I'm gonna have a few bugs and questions. Probably really simple ones, but which you can't find the answers to online cos they're so basic.
First one I've come across - I want to install Firefox and Thunderbird. How and where do I install these? I tried it from RPMs and that's fine for Firefox, but the latest RPM I could find for Thunderbird was 0.8 and I want 1.0. How do I go about doing this?
Cheers.
And damn am I impressed! It was so much more user friendly than I was expecting - it recognised everything! It got graphics card, sound card, tv card, monitor, printer, bluetooth, the whole works!
However, it's inevitable that I'm gonna have a few bugs and questions. Probably really simple ones, but which you can't find the answers to online cos they're so basic.
First one I've come across - I want to install Firefox and Thunderbird. How and where do I install these? I tried it from RPMs and that's fine for Firefox, but the latest RPM I could find for Thunderbird was 0.8 and I want 1.0. How do I go about doing this?
Cheers.
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Yeah, I might consider doing that. On a slight aside, can anyone recommend a good audio player for Suse. I want something similar to QCD and it must be able to play streaming audio from the Internet. It's like being back to square one again, though I'm gradually getting used to it.
If it's important enough you could create a FAT32 partition just for your emails and have both installations access that.
There is experimental write-support for NTFS, but you may need to do some advanced stuff including recompiling your kernel to get it. Have a trawl through the SuSe forums (if there are any), see if there is anyone there that has done it before.
EDIT: eek, sure those replies weren't there when I started typing this.
EDIT: eek, sure those replies weren't there when I started typing this.
Yeah, there is an option to turn on NTFS write support, but like you say, it's experimental, and I don't want to risk losing any of my data.
Read up on configuring your kernel.
(I'm not sure if you can do it in suse, but you should be able to)
There is an experimental "NTFS write support" thing which you can compile in. I can't remember if it was read, or write, someone will back me up on this.
Also, RPMs are a nightmare if you ask me, try reading up on a different package management system such as Gentoos Portage which can be installed on other distros with a bit of tweaking.
Although, if you are only going to be using Linux sparingly it probably isn't worth the effort of it.
(I'm not sure if you can do it in suse, but you should be able to)
There is an experimental "NTFS write support" thing which you can compile in. I can't remember if it was read, or write, someone will back me up on this.
Also, RPMs are a nightmare if you ask me, try reading up on a different package management system such as Gentoos Portage which can be installed on other distros with a bit of tweaking.
Although, if you are only going to be using Linux sparingly it probably isn't worth the effort of it.
OK, I managed to find an RPM for Thunderbird 1.0, but it doesn't seem to want to do much. I removed Thunderbird 0.8, checked the shortcuts and it was gone. I installed Thunderbird 1.0 from the RPM, all went fine, clicked the shortcut, and Help>About revealed it was 0.8 again.
I'm not too bothered though, cos I've just come across a huuuuge problem. My Windows installation is on an NTFS drive, which Suse can't write to anyway, so I can't make any changes to my emails (I was trying to share the mailbox between Windows and Linux).
I think I'm just gonna have to put up with not being able to write to my Windows Drive.
I'm not too bothered though, cos I've just come across a huuuuge problem. My Windows installation is on an NTFS drive, which Suse can't write to anyway, so I can't make any changes to my emails (I was trying to share the mailbox between Windows and Linux).
I think I'm just gonna have to put up with not being able to write to my Windows Drive.
It may well be that the latest available version of Thunderbird for Suse is 0.8. Some distributions update their software faster than others - users of those distributions have the latest software and the biggest headaches when version x turns out to be a broken Turkey. Checking on my machine at home (ssh is the best thing about Linux), the latest version available for Gentoo is 1.0, but Gentoo is one of the aforementioned headache distributions.
I had a quick google and there were quite a few results for "thunderbird 1.0 for suse". Have a read through the forum post listed at the top of this page: [URL]http://www.google.com/search?q=thunderbird+1.0+for+suse&sourceid=opera&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8[/URL] and see if any of that helps.
I had a quick google and there were quite a few results for "thunderbird 1.0 for suse". Have a read through the forum post listed at the top of this page: [URL]http://www.google.com/search?q=thunderbird+1.0+for+suse&sourceid=opera&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8[/URL] and see if any of that helps.
OK, I've talked about doing this lots before, and now I've gone and done it. I've just installed Suse 9.2 64-bit on my 2nd hard drive.
And damn am I impressed! It was so much more user friendly than I was expecting - it recognised everything! It got graphics card, sound card, tv card, monitor, printer, bluetooth, the whole works!
However, it's inevitable that I'm gonna have a few bugs and questions. Probably really simple ones, but which you can't find the answers to online cos they're so basic.
First one I've come across - I want to install Firefox and Thunderbird. How and where do I install these? I tried it from RPMs and that's fine for Firefox, but the latest RPM I could find for Thunderbird was 0.8 and I want 1.0. How do I go about doing this?
Cheers.
And damn am I impressed! It was so much more user friendly than I was expecting - it recognised everything! It got graphics card, sound card, tv card, monitor, printer, bluetooth, the whole works!
However, it's inevitable that I'm gonna have a few bugs and questions. Probably really simple ones, but which you can't find the answers to online cos they're so basic.
First one I've come across - I want to install Firefox and Thunderbird. How and where do I install these? I tried it from RPMs and that's fine for Firefox, but the latest RPM I could find for Thunderbird was 0.8 and I want 1.0. How do I go about doing this?
Cheers.
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