okay...heres the deal...
just upgraded from Fedora Core 1 to SuSE....yay...
everything seems to be working fine...except ive grown to love gnome from my days back in fedora and i wish to go back to gnome....but never again to fedora...

im running suse 9.1 Personal...
how do i get gnome to work...preferably easily...

also...is there a 'yum-like program' for suse??...that would make it a hole lot easyer to install things....

thanks in advance...

You can try installing Gnome with YaST I think. Gnome isn't standard installed on the Personal edition... I think...

yea....ive tryed yast.....do you know any servers for it....?
coz i couldnt find any...

ftp.suse.com is a good server, but the speed depends on where you live.

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.1/

Add this to the list in YaST.

server: ftp.suse.com
path: /pub/suse/i386/9.1

ok....now this sound really stupid.....but i put that into YaST Software source media thingie....

but what do i do with it now....all of the other YaST options seem to point to the cd only....?

HMm, move the FTP source to the top of the list. Then go to install or remove packages and search for "gnome"

Hi- I use 9.0 pro but it should be the same.
What I did was check in yast add remove software
I removed everything KDE and I mean everything
I then upgraded online and only allowed gnome stuff.
At least in 9.1 pro - gnome was there it just couldn't be accessed with KDE in the way
There is also a command that I cannot re-find that allows you in root to replace kde with gnome [or in my case FVWM2]
If someone can or if you know that command you are in like flint.

However even knowing [or not knowing that in my case] that you can even upgrade everything and select packages and don't allow kde in.

That worked for me too.
Jay

ditch gnome and get happier with KDE

but if you must......


-an easy way to find ftp's that will work as install sources is to open yast and go to the update section (YOU)
-Find a server near you.
-Go online and open the ftp location and find the path to the edition you have and transfer that location to the install source section (need to add a source)(move it to the top of the list).
-depending on your connection and the server load it could take a few minutes to sync, but you will have access to all of that server's packages.