Thanks Roy,
Sounds like good advice. I've wanted to upgrade to Ubuntu for a while now. Basically most of the applications that came with my SuSe 10.2 distro work and installed without a problem. For the first couple of years I didn't need fortran, but I've been using GNU Octave on my Windows desktop computer and have become a great fan. I just wanted to also run it on my SuSe 10.2 laptop. When I tried to install it, I learned that I needed to install a fortran compiler.
No problem (I thought) because I remembered that there was one included on my distro disk. But, I got the error mentioned here and suppose that I won't be able to proceed.
It is ironic that GNU Octave runs fine on a Windows platform, but I can't get it to install on a Linux platform because of this fortran issue.
Oh well.... the laptop is a few years old now and I need an upgrade anyway since I had bought a very very basic laptop for my first foray into Linux.... I'll just save up some money and get another Linux Certified laptop with Ubuntu. Everyone seems to be using that nowadays as far as I can tell...
Rick
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> Yes. Don't use openSuSE. Seriously.
>
> I have used many distros and for this SuSE is the worst at handling
> dependency errors. It has a dependency error dialogue that can compound your
> problems, especially if you don't know what you are doing. Then SuSE becomes
> unstable and even unbootable. I base this on years of use and experience
> with openSuSE and other distros.
>
> You can get dependency problems with any distro. However, with something
> like Ubuntu, there are so many versions floating around and so many packages
> available that you don't see it as often. When you get them you seldom have
> a serious problem and there are often multiple solutions. In SuSE's case
> there are far fewer packages and suppliers. Older versions like 10.3 soon
> get supplanted by newer ones.
>
> BTW, these kind of solutions are never easy to resolve. With Linux
> dependencies are shared and updating one may cause a problem elsewhere. The
> best way to avoid them is to stick with applications in the repositories and
> keep your versions as equal as possible. When you venture outside of the
> repositories you had best know what you are doing and the repercussions.
>
> If you insist on using openSuSE consider upgrading to 11.2, the most recent
> stable version. OpenSuSE is a fine distro with a terrible package manager
> and limited sources of software, IMO.
>
> Roy
>
>
> On 6 March 2010 08:43, Rick <revans_01420@
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> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I tried to install gcc-G77 from my SUSE 10.2 distro disk and I get the
> > error message:
> >
> > no installable providers of gcc==3.3.5-5 for gcc-g77-3.3.
> >
> > Is there an easy solution to this problem?
> >
> > Rick Evans
> >
> >
> >
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