Hi Matthew,
I can still remember when I was a n00b, so I'll show some mercy here.
1.) Learn how to email. You can start by providing a meaningful and
descriptive subject and checking if you actually want to send an
email before doing so.
2.) Learn how to google. I did a quick "opensuse install nginx" search,
and think the first search result is quite a good guide from
opensuse themselves: https://en.opensuse.org/Nginx
3.) Nginx pros please correct me if I'm wrong, but I would start by
installing nginx from the official opensuse repos with a simple
"sudo zypper install nginx" - more on starting/enabling nginx is in
the link above.
If you can't manage configuring the nginx version provided by
opensuse, compiling it from source won't improve anything for you.
4.) Learn how to Linux. https://opensuse-guide.org is probably a good
starting point for you. If you have questions relating more to Linux
in general and opensuse in particular than to nginx, maybe ask on
https://forums.opensuse.org ?
And now, experiment a bit, and please stop sending one email after the
other! If noone answers on a mailinglist, maybe it's just not the right
crowd to ask.
Cheers and good luck to you,
Tobias
On Mon, Jul 7, 2025, 6:53 AM Matthew Ngaha <chigga...@gmail.com
<mailto:chigga...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Like I said, those explanations are for people with Linux/programming
knowledge. I'm struggling to understand what's being said. I.e this
sentence is hard to comprehend:
"""Variables are e.g. useful for related repositories like packman
(http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/packman/suse/$releasever <http://
ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/packman/suse/$releasever>), which shall
always fit the installed distribution, even after a distribution
upgrade. To help performing a distribution upgrade, the value of
$releasever can be overwritten in zypper using the --releasever global
option. This way you can easily switch all repositories using
$releasever to the new version (provided the server layouts did not
change and new repos are already available)."""
What do they mean by related repository? What's an installed
distribution?
I can make some sense of it, but a quick layman's explanation would
have been better than reading through webpages trying to decipher
technical terms. Which is the very reason why I asked here to get
guided assistance.
The 2nd link (forum) is not needed. SLES, which I didn't understand
was mentioned in the installation guide, which is why reading the
installation guide's website just adds more confusing terms. I don't
need to browse the web just to understand a single term. This is time
consuming if there are a lot of terms I don't understand. You've
already provided 3 links, how many more do I need for such a simple
task?
I'm not begging for your help so don't worry about it, I'll try
asking AI.
Later.
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