On 07/04/2013 01:14 AM, gregor3000 wrote:[color=blue]
Hello,
we’ve bought HP Probook 4540s that comes with SLED preinstalled.[/color]
Congratulations!
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However it doesn’t seem there is a way to install any more programmes
other than preinstalled ones. And we still need to add a few more. The
repository is showing HP and UNREGISTERED. I am not quite sure if the
user is supposed to only register or if any additional payment is
required to install any other software. Surely the SLED repositories are
not so small. besides it looks as if these repositories were local.[/color]
No, there are definitely ways to install as much software as you would
like. I would be surprised if things like Thunderbird and Wine were not
part of SLED, but you may not be registered to a channel. While I have
not used the HPs pre-built with SLED, I have used SLED in the past from
the original media, so consider that may make our experiences slightly
different, though really it should mean you most/all of the options I did,
and probably more. For the record, SLED is available from
http://download.novell.com/ should you need to get media to get more software.
SLED (and SLES, for the server side) is a free installation to anybody who
wants it, including all of the software with which it ships, but in order
to get perpetual patches/updates a subscription fee is assessed by SUSE.
There is also, I believe, a thirty/sixty/ninety/something-day trial for
the patches, so at least for that period patches should be automatically
available. At any point in time you are able to add new software to your
system from the install media (DVD or other).
You may be missing a registration, and may not have the install media in
the system right now DVD ejected or not available… not sure on the HP
side how that works) which would make your search for new software pretty
small. Try registering if not done already (HP may have a special way of
doing that for their systems, so ask them first) or download the install
media (HP or SUSE/Novell) and install whatever you want from there.
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The thing is we need a few things and they don’t seem to be easilly
done in SLED. Such as AMD GPU proprietary drivers (not sure yet if they
came preinstalled or not), Thunderbird, video codecs and Wine (for one
MS programme). The older and stable packages are not an issue, but it
would be nice to have an easy way for installing programmes (i know
there is YaST btu as mentioned there are no repositories in it).[/color]
I have an NVidia card, so I’m not sure how to tell if you have them or
not, but perhaps HP’s support can tell you, or help you along the way. If
you know the name of the RPM that holds the AMD GPU files you could search
for that using either Yast or the command line:
Code:
rpm -qa | grep -i amd #search for packages with ‘amd’ in the name
You can also try searching for available, repository-hosted software from
the command line, which should be a little faster than using Yast if you
are up to it:
Code:
zypper search thunderbird
zypper search wine
zypper search amd
Once you find something you want, try installing it with the name returned
from the command above:
Code:
zypper install MozillaThunderbird
If not available, get the media as mentioned before, preferably from HP in
case they have customized things for your system.
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Furthermore i take it version 12 will be out soon. Is the upgrade free
or does one need to purchase it?[/color]
Not positive on this. I believe you only reallypay for the updates, and
so if that is current I think the same code will work for the 12 version
as well as the 11 and 10 versions, but don’t quote me on that. With HP in
the mix things may be slightly different, though just because your box
came with SLED from them does not mean you cannot use SLED directly from
Novell to avoid a middle-man.
Good luck.
