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SuSE Linux: Versions since 4.4
All articles and items in SDB have a common, specific layout. Throughout the support articles there are navigation bars above and below the texts providing an easy means of seraching and finding desired pages. A brief description of these options is given on the main SuSE Support Database page. Following is a more complete explanation of the menu items:
The Main page link accesses the the entry page to the SDB. Here you might find interesting news and a list of the available mirrors.
The easiest way of locating information is to click on Searchform, where you can enter a keyword. Every item in SDB is provided with several keywords which are described below.
Keywords are all in uppercase, but searches are not case-sensitive. In addition to simple words, you may search for any regular expression.
Full-text search is not available.
This is helpful for people who look up things more often. Under History you can see what items have recently been added to the SDB.
The articles are listed with their creation dates and times in reverse-chronilogical order (the newest at the top).
Here you may search for database articles relevant to specific software versions. Clicking on Versions will present you with a list of SuSE releases and XFree86 releases. Selecting any of these will present a list of all relevant support articles.
The articles in our Support database are also classified in a hierarchical manner. The Categories link will bring up the top level of support categories. Under each support category you can find support articles as well as sub-categories.
Under Contents you find an alphabetical list of all SDB entries by title.
Currently, most SuSE SDB articles are originally created in German and then translated to English as well as other languages. You may use the links labelled Deutsch to access the original German.
Links to Français and Español -- and perhaps others in the future -- may also exist if the article has also been translated to this language. Currently, languages besides German and English are not as well represented.
It is SuSE's goal to keep the various language versions of the SDB synchronized in regards to content. However, there will always be a slight delay between article creation and translation.
In addition to being viewed online at the URL http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb, the SuSE Support Database can be installed locally by downloading the current version as a package.
Starting with SuSE Linux 6.1, the SDB consists of 6 packages:
sdb.rpm
(Search, Icons, and Links)
sdb_de.rpm
(German)
sdb_en.rpm
(English)
sdb_fr.rpm
(French)
sdb_it.rpm
(Italian)
sdb_es.rpm
(Spanish)
sdb.rpm
in addition to at
least one of the language packages.
These packages can be found on our ftp server at the following location:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/noarch/sdb/
We also make daily updates available. These are packaged as "diffs" from the start of each month. They are located here:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/noarch/sdb/diffs/HTML files are installed locally under
/usr/doc/sdb
and can
be viewed with any web browser.
In order to use the search function, you must have a web server installed
and running on your computer. Beginning with SuSE 4.4, you can install
the package apache
and edit the file
/etc/rc.config
. Set the following variable like so:
START_HTTPD=yesThis will start apache at system boot. To activate it on an already booted system, enter the command
/sbin/init.d/apache startIn addition, you must install the package
sdb_cgi
, which is
located in series 'd', or Documentation.
To access the search facility, point your web browser at the following URL http://localhost/support-db/sdb.
Starting with SuSE Linux 6.1, this path has changed to http://localhost/sdb/de/html. This change applies to URLs below as well.
Hint: if you have configured your machine or web browser to use a proxy server, the hostname localhost will be resolved by the proxy server!
Either disable the proxy server in your browser configuration, or use the
URL http://MYHOST/support-db/sdb
where MYHOST
is
your machine's hostname.
Better still, you could configure your browser to resolve requests from
localhost
locally, rather than via the Proxy. (see
lynx_proxy.html for lynx; Netscape can be
configured under Edit -> Prefernces).
This work is copyrighted by SuSE GmbH and is placed under conditions of the GNU General Public License.
It may be copied as whole or in part as long as this copyright notice is left intact and delivered with each copy.
According to paragraphs 11 and 12 of the GNU General Public License, SuSE GmbH cannot be held responsible for the correctness of the articles contained herein.
If you want to make the Support DataBase publically available please contact Martin Scherbaum (maddin@suse.de). Please note that this address is not for support requests.
See also:
Feedback welcome: Send Mail to kfr@suse.de (Please give the following subject: SDB-sdb
)
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