opensuse

Should I start distributing my systems as Wine ready?

I have tested all my systems developed in Delphi (in Windows XP) on Wine (OpenSuse Linux) and they work perfectly. My question is: should I start distributing my systems (on a local basis that I can support) as Wine ready or are there other issues I should take into account? ...

Remote desktop client to connect to Linux from Vista x64

I am looking at connecting to a openSuse 11.1 Beta 3 virtual machine from my Vista 64-bit development workstation. I found UltraVNC Viewer to be the only option for this purpose. Is there any other clients that I can use to connect from Vista to openSuse/other Linux installs? Note: Bandwidth is not a worry, the connection will be using...

Is there a way to check if an USB drive is stopped?

I've written a script to backup my server's HD every night. At the end of the script, I sync, wait a couple of minutes, sync and then I issue sg_start --stop to stop the device. The idea is to extend the lifetime of the device by switching the HD off after ten minutes of incremental backup (desktop disks will survive several thousand on/...

How do I upgrade PHP 5.1 to 5.2 on SUSE 10.1 using the yast command line only?

How do I upgrade PHP 5.1 to 5.2 from the SUSE 10.1 command line? Is there a package manager command to do it automatically? Actually I need JSON support to use the JavaScript-RTE and believe it's in PHP 5.2 only. ...

Is there a KDE systray epplet for Enlightment?

Enlightenment DR16 is packaged with openSUSE 11.1 but it's a bit painful to use with KDE apps as there's no obvious (on the Enlightenment site, google etc.) way to provide a systray for KDE apps that require one (e.g., ktorrent). Anyone know of a way around this? I'm not using e for the eye-candy - I'm running on a 2.6GHz Celeron and K...

Apache2 libapreq2 on OpenSUSE 11.1

I'm trying to install software based on Apache2/mod_perl2/Perl onto an OpenSUSE 11.1 box. libapreq2 doesn't seem to be anywhere in the OpenSUSE repository, and CPAN won't install it because my mod_perl is from the package manager, not from source. I'd really rather stick with packages for this install, rather than building from source ...

How to Instal MinGW in OpenSuSE Linux flavour???

Hello, what is the procedure to install MinGW for OpenSuSE and also send me the link where i could get a proper MinGW installation package. waiting for reply... Thank U ... ...

Can QT Creator on linux create .exe files

Hello, I ve installed QT Creator in OpenSUSE Linux distro, Can i know if it is possible to create ".exe" of QT program which is perfectly executing in Linux. If so kindly mention the procedure to create .exe in Linux. Thank U ...

install Mingw for SuSE Linux

Hello, please tell me, where do i get a link to install QT with MinGW cross compiler in Linux? Thank you ...

Distributing a program in linux without the source

I want to be able to distribute a program in Linux without distributing the source with it. The current solution is distributing a tar.gz with a precompiled binary. What is the easiest way to have this binary be placed in the Applications Menu? Is there a way to do this that is common across most linux distributions, but Ubuntu, Fedora, ...

php doesnt show error

hi im working in php on suse11.0 my problem is when i type a wrong syntax or query it doesnt show error only blank page shown at this situtaion thanks ...

OpenSUSE multicast not working?

I'm trying to do multicast dns on OpenSuSE through a trusted java applet<->, and my attempts to find anything on the network are silently blocked! What could be the problem? ...

How does one override an existing zsh keyboard completion?

I would like to enable zsh to autocomplete modules for yast2 (an OpenSuSE control panel), but it seems to already have some things defined. I can run compctl -k "(hello world)" nonexistantprogram just fine, but compctl -k "(hello world)" yast2 doesn't work at all. Some things for yast2 seem to be already defined, namely the "-" opt...

Compile mysql for AES 256bits

According to mysql document "Encoding with a 128-bit key length is used, but you can extend it up to 256 bits by modifying the source." But they didn't seem to provide instruction where to change. Anyone experience with this situation? which source file should change? Note: I use these steps to compile. ...

How do I fix "no symbol version for module_layout"?

I'm trying to compile the nvidia driver and the VirtualBox drives on openSUSE 11.2. Both compile fine (after the usual make oldconfig plus a partial build of the kernel) but when I try to load the modules, I get this error: vboxdrv: no symbol version for module_layout What's wrong? How do I fix this? ...

Compiling xboxdrv on openSUSE 11.2

I'm trying to use an xbox360 controller as a joystick in openSUSE 11.2. When attempting to compile xboxdrv (http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/) I get the following errors: g++ -o src/xbox_controller.o -c -g -O2 -Wall -ansi -pedantic src/xbox_controller.cpp In file included from src/xbox_controller.hpp:23, from src...

sh shell emails var/usr/email/dave forwarding

Hi, I'm new to openSuse 11.1, I have several crontab jobs running, one of which creates a dynamic list of 'at' jobs each day. Is there a way for the emails which the 'sh' shell sends to /var/usr/email/dave to be forwarded to other email addresses, my research has come up blank, mainly because I'm not sure what I'm looking for. Cheers if ...

How to create a RPM build for opensuse 11.2 form netatalk 2.0.5

Is there someone who knows how to create a RPM from netatalk 2.0.5. Or better has a URL to a RPM? I aske this because so fare I know there are no RPM's for opensuse 11.2 (or suse). Thankyou, Ivo Trompert ...

default mapping Win key in opensuse

Dear All, I am using opensuse 10.2. Win key is mapped to application menu. I want to disable it. I tried Control Center-> Personal -> Shortcut and changed the mapping. But the default mapping is still working. Is there any file I can change to disable this default behavior. Thanks ...

Looking for a recommended SVN link...

I am looking for a recommended link to download a Tortoise equivalent for OpenSUSE with GNOME desktop. ...