Getting started

[Graeme Gregory]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 09:38:27AM +0100, Hodgson, Simon wrote:
> Hi There,
> 
> I'm trying to get going installing and building OE, but have failed at the first hurdle, I'm following the instructions at this page:
> 
> http://oe.linuxtogo.org/wiki/OEandYourDistro
> 
> My build PC is running OpenSuSE 10.3, I've managed to install apt4rpm OK.
> 
> Next step was to add
> 
> "deb http://www.openembedded.org/dl/ packages/" to "/etc/apt/sources.list" and run "apt-get update"
> 
> When I do this I get the message "E: Type 'deb' is not known in on line 25 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list"
> 
> Looking at the file the other repositories are listed as 'repomd' or 'rpm' so I tried changing 'deb' to 'repomd' but that just produces a load of 404 Not Found errors.
> 
You are probably better just working out the packages required for SuSe
and installing them by hand.

If you do this please write down the list and update the Wiki page.

I think SuSe is one of the least used distros within OE community.

Graeme