Just after observing how good suse is, I'm surprised to see that it doesn't even have a basic C compiler. I wanted to install Emacs (an editor I used to use at work and one I'm more comfortable with than vi) and when I did a quicj configuration check I found no cc or gcc! I was surprised that this distribution didn't come packaged with it.
When I tried to download the source code for gcc, I read that the system needed to have another basic C Compiler to compile the gcc source! Catch 22s all over the place! I was considering just downloading a binary release when I thought of using SUSE's own application installer software. That seemed to be much better. I first selected gcc and it included all dependent packages and downloaded and installed it. It didn't however let me know when the installation was done. That would have been a little more helpful. I was about to try the same process again before I tried invoking gcc from shell and it was there!
Then I thought of going ahead and installing emacs also from SUSE's application installer. It didn't get me the most recent release however - but something is better than nothing.
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