[UFO Chicago] Repositories For SLES

[Jay F. Shachter]

Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Matthew T. Gibbs would write on Sun May 15 14:50:48 2016:

> 
> I'd like to point out though that openSUSE's BuildService does offer
> some (unofficial) packages for SLES including Libreoffice.  See
> here:
> 
> <http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/5.1/>
> 
> Also, you can sign up for a free BuildService account and build
> stuff there in a clean environment against several different SUSE
> and non-SUSE distributions and it'll make a repository for you for
> easy installation.
> 

Tell me more.  I know that, in general, you cannot use OpenSuse
repositories for SLES, it is like using Fedora repositories for RHEL.
Is there something I can put into /etc/zypp that will enable me to
type "zypper install X" for various values of X?  And are there simple
instructions somewhere telling me how to do that?  Thank you in
advance for your reply.


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