Difference between revisions of "OpenSUSE Build Instructions"

Revision as of 13:29, 18 April 2006

About openSUSE

openSUSE project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. The program provides anyone with free and easy access to SUSE Linux.

Build Instructions

The build procedure is the same as for other Linux systems.

Missing devel packages

The default OpenSUSE installation media does not include all packages because of CD/DVD space limitation. The missing devel packages, necessary to build OOo, can be found at various openSUSE mirrors. It is enough to add the respective installation source into YaST. For example:

SL10.0 / OSS 10.0:

   http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source
   http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source-java

SL-HEAD / OSS-HEAD (still used aslo for SL10.1 / OSS 10.1):

   http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source

Some notes:

• There is no installation source for HEAD and the commercial Java. Though, you can find the Sun Java on the SUSE Linux Add-on CD, for example: http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-RC1/SUSE-Linux-10.1-RC1-i386.torrent

• These installation sources are quite a big (provide packages for all architectures). It takes a while until they are load. It is also quite

memory demanding :-(

• The missing packages can be found at go-ooo.org as well.