installing emacs and mercurial on suse

Question

I've some experience on Debian based distribution. There I've never had difficulties to install software like emacs and mercurial which I believe are quite standard packages in Linux OSes. Now I have a new laptop with Suse Enterprise. It seems that neither emacs nor mercurial are found in the list of installable packages...

I believe that I have to add some repository to zipper... So this is my actual list of repositories:

> zypper repos
# | Alias                                             | Nome                                              | abilitato | Attualizza
--+---------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------
1 | HP-SBSO-Emergency-Channel                         | HP-SBSO-Emergency-Channel                         | Sì        | Sì        
2 | SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Desktop-11-SP1 11.1.1-1.133 | SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Desktop-11-SP1 11.1.1-1.133 | Sì        | Sì        
3 | hd-889c0513                                       | SuSE-Linux-Updates                                | Sì        | Sì        
4 | hd-aeb4361a                                       | SuSE-Linux-Maintenance-Updates                    | Sì        | Sì

I found many repository lists but don't understand how to add any of them (a HREF to a .repo seems needed). Any help would be appreciated.

Hmm, don't have Enterprise, but openSuse12.3, xfce, which feels great, much faster than at earlier times. Quit nice with Emacs and DVC's. BTW Enterprise should have some kind of professional support(?) — Andreas Röhler
I think the problem is that I skipped the registration pass during first boot (because internet was not available) and now I'm stuck... — Emanuele Paolini

Ralf Ralf · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-03T22:41:39

On SLE11, emacs is in the SLE11-SP1-Updates repository

Repository: SLES11-SP1-Updates
Name: emacs
Version: 22.3-4.36.1
Arch: x86_64
Hersteller: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Support Level: Level 3
Installiert: Nein
Status: nicht installiert
Installierte Größe: 48,9 MiB
Zusammenfassung: GNU Emacs Base Package
Beschreibung: 
Basic package for the GNU Emacs editor. Requires emacs-x11 or
emacs-nox.

And mercurial is in the SDK repository:

Repository: SLE11-SDK-SP1-Pool
Name: mercurial
Version: 1.0.2-27.32
Arch: x86_64
Hersteller: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Support Level: Unbekannt
Installiert: Nein
Status: nicht installiert
Installierte Größe: 2,8 MiB
Zusammenfassung: Scalable Distributed SCM
Beschreibung: 
Mercurial is a fast, lightweight source control management system
designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects.

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You add repositories either via "zypper ar" or via yast. You can only get update repositories if you have a valid subscription with SUSE.

installing emacs and mercurial on suse

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