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Fish11

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I'm new to Linux and just installed Suse10. I have no clue what I'm doing here as I got it and figured I'd dual boot with XP Pro and learn as I go. I've never even seen Linux before so I'm out of my element here. But at least I have it all installed! 🙂

I've just dl'd Opera and have 3 files...

control.tar.gz
data.tar.gz
debian-binary

How do I open them now after the extraction to install Opera? I do like Konquerer tho and plan on using both.

I also have 6MB cable in Windows and in Linux I am only getting 175-215 kilobits per second. How can I speed it up? 🙁
 
Why don't you install it via YaST? Or is it not in the repositories? I'm currently away from my Suse machine but I'm sure Opera, at least has a rpm build for Suse which you can simply right-click and install it via YaST or let YaST download it from the repositories for easy installation.

For the connection speed, check your NIC settings.
 
control.tar.gz
data.tar.gz
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These two are tarballs. They're compressed files that contain a number of files inside them. You should use gunzip and tar to extract (untar) them. Something like:
gunzip control.tar.gz && tar -xvf control.tar

debian-binary
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If you're using Suse, a debian binary probably isn't what you want.
 
IIRC control.tar.gz, data.tar.gz and debian-binary are the contents of a .deb file, I guess he downloaded and extracted one somehow.

 
Thanks guys. Yea, I downloaded the wrong file. I wasn't aware that I had options for different distros. After reading the replies I went back and dl'd the correct one and then I had the yast option and it worked. I haven't checked the NIC yet as I just got home but will reply back if I can fix it.
 
Not sure why your download speed is lower than usual. Are you sure it just wasn't the place you downloaded it from? Check with broadbandreports.com with their speed test.
 
I'm not sure either. I've been Googling for a couple hours now to try and see if I can find anything but haven't as of yet. I'm sure if it was one of you guys it would be fixed in a second as it's probably an easy fix but I am lost in SuSE. lol

I checked the speed tests at broadbandreports also and it comes up with the same slow speed.
 
The only thing I can think of that might cause that problem is a duplex mismatch. I doubt you have a managed switch, so just forcing Linux to 100Mb-FD might be enough, as long as you're sure the switch can do that.
 
If your Internet is slow in SUSE, you may have to change your IPV6 settings. A google search for IPV6 and SUSE 10 will tell you what you need.
 
Nothinman, bless your soul, I've read a lot of your posts trying to learn from you because of how intelligent you are but this one, like most others, is SO far over my head... 🙁
I DO appreciate your reply so very much though. 🙂

timswim78, same applies. lol I am a TOTAL *nix n00b. I have never even seen it before and am happier than a pig in poop that I dual booted XP with it. Tomorrow I will certainly do a Google for what you suggested and hopefully I will understand more.

I hope you guys don't give up on me because I have only used SUSE for a day and am confused. The internet problem is my ONLY problem I am having now after install and I want to give up Windows for good. 🙂
 
Were exactly are you getting this download rate from? This 172-215 kilobits?


Those things are rarely accurate and even if they are... sometimes the readings are KB, and not kb. Like if I am going full force on a bittorrent download it'll say 512KB/s or some such thing and it'll actually be 4096Kb/s if I wanted to look at it modem-style.

Also there isn't going to be many servers that are going to be able to match your 6Gb/s pipe. I don't know if you have java installed yet, but go google and check out some of the download benchmark websites and see what you can get.

It would suck to run around and change all your settings on everything only to find out it was a slow server or a mistake.

Not that I think this is the problem or not, but it's easier to get the easy questions asked and answered before going around and trying to figure /proc interface or something like that.
 
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