For many, the biggest barrier to adopting Linux is the challenge of having to use the command line for too many tasks. One of these tasks, it is though, is the installation of applications. While everyone has seen this is not true of any application installed via the Add/Remove Software utility (which nearly every distribution [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

So far in our OpenSuSE series we have covered OpenSuSE (see “Why not try OpenSuSE“), YaST (see “YaST: Yet Another Setup Tool“), and Installing software (see “Installing software in OpenSuSE with YaST“). This time around we are going to take a look at how to install software in OpenSuSE using the command line. I realize [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Tutorials Basic

How many times have you installed Linux, tweaked it to perfection with various applications, only to have something happen and you have to re-install. Or you get that machine up and running with all the goods and then want to re-create the system on another machine. In either of these situations, the last thing you [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Using Linux, in one form or another, then you have dealt with one package manager or another. Be it apt, urpmi, dpkg, or rpm, they all have the same goal: Make package management consistent and easy. Each of those tools even have a front-end (or two) to make the job even easier. But there are [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic