Hi. I am using SuSe 9.3 Pro, and I would like to install all the development tools on to my Computer

I have gone into YaST --> Software --> install and remove Software, I then choses to see all the pakagaes and tell it to install all the C/C++ files, it does the first three then stops at 0% on "libgcj-devel-3.3.5 (20.44MB)" When I click on abort, it will not respond (lol) and because I am new I dont know how to get to an application that shows the processes (sorry)

Anyway, I was just wondering if I could get all the development tools for C and C++ from somewhere that is not my install CDs, or how I can fix this.

Thanks for reading,
Pete

to see process u can do this on shell
ps -A
but if ur new then this wont make any sense ...
by the way i think there is some problem in media if it doesnt install in reasonable time .. try some other CD ..
there are many C/C++ development tools like glade and QT .. depends on wot u want .. u can download from internet ..
or maybe if u have access to good spped internet
login as root
and issue this command
#yum install glade # i hope it works in SUSE
with yum command u can download and install various applications
i think for suse there is something called Yast ..
issue this command on command line to see more abt YaST

#man YaST

Hi Pete,

In SuSE the easiest way to install software is through YaST, in order to do this YaST needs the installation sources, by default SuSE adds the DVD or set of CDs that you used for installation as sources.

In your case, it seems that YaST can't read that package or can't find it from your installation sources and that's why it stops there. When this happens, and you hit the abort button nothing will happen. You must kill the application from the console. Find with the command top, or using Ksysguard the number of the process linked with YaST and type in console as root:

# kill /number/of/process

To solve your problem you have to set up your installation sources, go to YaST -> Software -> Installation Source, by default you should see at least one line that corresponds to your DVD or set of Cds, as you may see, you can add other sources, in this case repositories from the internet, you can read this tutorial:
http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42/
or you can read one of the sticky treads in this forum about how to do this.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for all your help guys. I have wrote it all down in my Linux Lerning book . But unfortunatly SuSe .. um well I got board of SuSe and now useing Red Hat Frdora Core 3 (I think) with Gnome.

Thanks again.
Pete