This site has an APT repository for some RPM packages for the SuSE Linux distribution. You can read more about this Advanced Package Tool here . Actually, is the better and easy way to keep your system updated. We strongly recommend the use of this package to update your SuSE distribution. To install it, please follow the instructions of this page
In this site, we regulary build some (few) RPM packages with latest versions for SuSE. You can download them accessing directly to our FTP server or HTTP server. Because this is a small site with narrow bandwidth we ask you to use this FTP mirror and this HTTP mirror .But the easy way to upload the packages is using APT facilities. Currently we have APT repositories for SuSE 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2 . The one for 8.1 is very small beacuse we don't have available 8.1 machines anymore, sorry.
To be able to use these repositories, you have to keep the suser-gbv module in the lines from the links in the following table in your /etc/apt/sources.list file, supressing the components you don't want. You also have to choice the HTTP protocol or FTP. Note that these example files has some many more modules, some of them with experimental packages and they could make your system unstable. You can read some hints here
| SuSE version | FTP | HTTP |
|---|---|---|
SuSE 8.0 |
FTP sources list | HTTP sources list |
SuSE 8.1 |
FTP sources list | HTTP sources list |
SuSE 8.2 |
FTP sources list | HTTP sources list |
SuSE 9.0 |
FTP sources list | HTTP sources list |
SuSE 9.1 |
FTP sources list | HTTP sources list |
SuSE 9.2 |
FTP sources list | HTTP sources list |
SuSE 9.3 |
FTP sources list | HTTP sources list |
If you consider this as a trusted repository you can manage your apt client to take these packages as valid after checking their signature. To do it, you need to import the signatures of this repository (downloading the files in the links on next paragraph). Then as root, rpm should import the keys
#rpm --import the_file_with_public_key.ascSince 1st April 2004, the packages are signed with this PGP key (for SuSE 8.x) and with this GNUPG key for SuSE >= 9.0.
IMPORTANT: For SuSE 9.x there is a very easy way to import public rpm keys from repositories. You will need to add the component rpmkeys. Then simply install the rpm with the desired rpmkey. As example
#apt --no-checksig install rpmkey-suser-gbvWhen installing, the key will be imported automaticaly and you will be able to ckeck the signature of all packages from that repository