[Slashcode-general] install on SuSE7.0

[tompoe <to...@so...>]

I asked this on the SuSE list, but would like to now move forward and seek the
experts' opinion, here, if I may:

I'm running SuSE7.0, which uses Yast to install packages.  Apache and mod_perl
along with MySQL are easily installed with this setup.  Now, anyone have any
experience with adjusting the configurations to run Slashcode?  Also, would it
be better to use .tar.gz or rpm to install Slashcode?  I'm leaning towards
.tar.gz, but would like your input, please.  Thanks, from this humble newbie. 
Tom
P.S.  I'll be using it to track gov procurement messages, if that makes a
difference.