Linux – How to Enable Remote Shell On SUSE Linux

I'm sorry for not completely understanding your question. You'd want to check this page for information on installing from commandline. Especially worth noting is the link to "Zypper" which I hadn't heard of before googling for you :]

You could ssh and type "zypper in realvnc" and if zypper is installed, that'll work.

The gist is, you are working on a system which uses RPMs for package management. There are other add-ons that Suse makes [YAST, zypper] which make handling the dependencies a lot easier, but you can install software directly with RPM, forgoing those niceties if you want.

You can also always compile from source. Have you ever done that before?

As it happens I'm currently going the other direction, coming from a SLES-based office to an Ubuntu one.

The difference is quite significant and they do not share much in the way of distro-level commands. The commands that differ:

• Service start/stop/management
• Runlevel editing
• Package management
• Config-file management (though the "just directly modify files" methods work on both)
• sudo/su config differs
• Network configuration

In short, nearly everything is different. I'm still learning how to do things the Ubuntu way and it has been several months. The linguistic analogy is the difference between German and English.

If you need access now, I suggest downloading the latest OpenSUSE release as that's what SLES is based on. The newer OpenSUSE releases do differ from the SLES version in some interesting ways, but how you interact with the overall system doesn't change a lot. Again with the linguistic analogy, this is US English vs UK English; it's a different dialect but still intelligible.