[lug] suse and sshd

[Ferdinand P. Schmid]

All change is difficult - and so is trying a different distro.  I am using SUSE
7.0 and am trying to install (rebuild) the latest openssh srpm from
openssh.com.  I would have gone for a simpler one but couldn't find it on suse's
site.  Frankly I can't find anything useful on their ftp site.  7.0 ships with
rpm 3.4.x and can't handle 3.5.x packages, which are very common these days.  I
ended up using an rpm upgrade for RH 6.2 to get over that hurdle because SUSE's
update directory for rpms didn't have anything past 3.4.
I also don't understand their directory structure for rpms on the cd.  And I
can't find an online image of the contents of any of their disks beyond disk1.
I am sure most of my problems come from the fact that I hadn't used anything
than RH for the past 3 years and a I never used SUSE.  But they don't seem to
make it easy to find their rpms - I couldn't find any useful suse rpm on
rpmfind.net.  At this point I haven't given up and I am willing to learn.

Thanks for your help!
Ferdinand

Deva Samartha wrote:

> Well, I am not trying, I have sshd version OpenSSH_2.2.0p1 under SuSE 7.0
> and I did the build on Oct 28. possibly under SuSE 6.4, so my memory is a
> bit sketchy in details.
>
> What SuSE version are you running under?
> Where did you get the ssh source from?
>
> SuSE comes with openssh or at least you can get it from their website.
>
> But SuSE's ssh version is not the latest openssh version and when you
> download the latest from the openssh site and try to build, you run into
> problems.
>
> I think, one needs either openssl and/or mod_ssl to build the ssh and
> again, the versions need to match with the particular SuSE version you are
> running.
>
> I'd get the source rpm either from the CD or their ftp site for the SuSE
> version you are under and build that.
>
> I am not familiar with openssh-server and I don't know in which way it
> differs from openssh. My source tarball for this was: openssh-2.2.0p1.tar.gz
>
> Hoping this helps,
>
> Samartha
>
> At 05:48 PM 1/24/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >HI,
> >Has anyone tried to set up openssh on a suse box?  I decided to give SUSE a
> >try since they now also seem to support PPCs.  Currently I have it installed
> >on an Intel box but have lots of trouble to get openssh-server- installed.
> >After a long game of installing dependencies of dependencies... I am now
> >faced with:
> >
> >rpm -ivh openssh-server-2.3.0p1-1.i386.rpm
> >error: failed dependencies:
> >         chkconfig >= 0.9 is needed by openssh-server-2.3.0p1-1
> >         initscripts >= 4.16 is needed by openssh-server-2.3.0p1-1
> >
> >---> followed by:
> >
> >rpm -ivh chkconfig-1.2.17-1.i386.rpm
> >file /etc/rc.d/init.d from install of chkconfig-1.2.17-1 conflicts with
> >file from package aaa_dir-2000.7.29-0
> >
> >Maybe some of the SUSE guys have dealt with this before.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Ferdinand
> >
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> >
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