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I'd like to install nano on a virtual machine installed with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4. There are no package repositories defined in YaST. What repo URL should I use? I can't find any on the web.

Thank you for your help.

kol
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  • Hmm. "SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and openSUSE use zypper for package management and YaST for system administration." from [Package and System Management Tools for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and openSUSE](https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/package-and-system-management-tools-for-suse-linux-enterprise-server-and-opensuse/) – DavidPostill Jan 20 '16 at 16:04
  • [SDB:Zypper usage](https://en.opensuse.org/SDB%3aZypper_usage): "This article is about how to use Zypper, the command line package manager using the Libzypp library for installing, updating and removing packages as well as for managing repositories. It is especially useful for accomplishing remote software management tasks or managing software from shell scripts. " – DavidPostill Jan 20 '16 at 16:08

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I don't know of a repository for this version, but it is still possible to download an ISO.

The name of the ISO is SLES-10-SP4-DVD-i386-GM-DVD1.iso for the i386 version, or SLES-10-SP4-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso for the x86_64 version.

Here are a couple of download links that I found using Google :

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  • It's sad that these files cannot be downloaded from http://www.suse.com anymore... Thanks for the links. I needed the 64-bit version, so I downloaded the second one. I found the MD5 hash of the iso on the web, so I could test it and it was OK. Unfortunately, I could not find `nano`, only `vi` and `joe` were available in the iso. – kol Jan 21 '16 at 13:21
  • Nano can be [installed from scratch](http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/nano.html). – harrymc Jan 21 '16 at 13:31
  • I tried it but `make` fails with `nano.h:93:20: error: curses.h: No such file or directory`. – kol Jan 21 '16 at 14:37
  • Perhaps nano-2.0.6 [worked once](http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/nano-2-0-6-suse-linux-10-0-enterprise-592205/). – harrymc Jan 21 '16 at 15:01
  • I solved it... Using a "version bisection method", I quickly found that the latest rpm which could be installed without problems was 2.1.7. So I did `wget http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.1/RPMS/nano-2.1.7-1.x86_64.rpm` and then `sudo rpm -i nano-2.1.7-1.x86_64.rpm`. – kol Jan 21 '16 at 15:10
  • Link for SLES 10 SP2 i386: ftp://ftp.okhysing.is/suse/SLES-10-SP2-DVD-i386-GM-DVD1.iso – Joril Mar 22 '17 at 11:06