Thanks so much for the much needed education, Mark. The issue is we have not deployed SuSE on z as it should have been done. I think the fixes for this are easy because we are now rather good at cloning, and we can just start from scratch with a proper installation. Does SuSE have any academic licenses? We were supposed to have one with Red Hat but there is some confusion around that. But I blather.
Thanks! On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Mark Post <mp...@suse.com> wrote: > >>> On 4/25/2015 at 01:59 AM, Cameron Seay <cws...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We have had trouble accessing the ftp server with our > > installation media (which of course has php) > > You shouldn't need to access the installation media. If you have > registered your system, you should have the Pool and Update repositories > automatically added that live on nu.novell.com. Then it's a simple > "zypper in" command to get what you want. If you have a good number of > systems that are going to be doing this, then it would make sense to > install the Subscription Management Tool (SMT) add-on product and register > your systems against that. > https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=l8FuDkiYOg0~ If nothing else, > SMT will provide a local mirror copy of all the SLES RPMs, saving a lot of > bandwidth for downloading packages to lots of systems. > > > and are using the Open SuSE > > OSS repo and I don't see php on it. It's an issue with our unorthodox > > installation and not the distro. Any tips on a repo I can access that > has > > php? > > First, mixing openSUSE RPMs and SLES RPMs is a rather bad idea. The two > were never intended to co-exist. Second, there aren't ANY openSUSE RPMs > for the mainframe available for SLES11. (That just _very_ recently changed > for SLES12, and I'm not yet familiar enough with the whole setup to talk > about it any detail.) If you're talking about x86_64 only, then reference > the first point: bad idea. > > Still, to answer the question that was asked, if I do a "zypper se -s php" > on an openSUSE 13.2 system, I get lots of hits coming from > openSUSE-13.2-Oss ( > http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.2/repo/oss/) and > openSUSE-13.2-Update (http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2/). > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > -- Cameron Seay, Ph.D. Department of Computer Systems Technology School of Technology NC A & T State University Greensboro, NC 336 334 7717 x2251 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
