nginx Digest, Vol 178, Issue 2

[Tobias Damisch]

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 <chigga101 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:chigga101 at 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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