Husse wrote:and I think OpenSuse will be installed soon too.
Make sure you install the
smart package manager too. Don't use
yast as package manager ... it does a poor job at that, sorry to say so.
yast is
great for adding and/or removing components from the installer DVD, and it's absolutely
superb as sysadmin tool ... but as package manager? Nope, sorry.
Once you got your OpenSUSE 10.2 installed, copy and paste this list to a text file, e.g. "smart-channels.txt":
Once you have this stuff in a text file, "
su -" into root and execute this command sequence:
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su -
smart channel --remove-all
smart channel --add smart-channels.txt
smart update
Once you got this stuff entered, smart behaves very much like "apt-get" ... e.g. instead of "apt-get install IwantThisPackage" you'd type (as root!):
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smart install IwantThisPackage
If you want, "smart" also offers a Synaptic-like GUI. As root you'd type:
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smart --gui
Beware that "out of the box" lots of stuff is missing: MP3 codecs, DVD codecs, a decent media player (SUSE ships crippled versions! Make sure you get rid of those and install the real stuff via "smart"!), all the good browser-plugins that make life a bit more interesting ...
With the help of "smart" you can install all those things within 15 minutes. Use smart's GUI and search for packages such as "kdemultimedia3-mad", "mad", "w32codec-all", "MPlayer" (make sure you get a release that has ".pm." in its package name!), "kmplayer" (go for the "guru" releases, e.g. "0.9.3-a1.guru.something ..."), Amarok (again: "guru" releases! e.g. "1.4.5.-101.guru" ...), "xvid", "divx", "libdvdnav", "libdvdread", "libdvdplay" ... You basically just need to select these few packages; tons of other relevant dependencies (more codecs, more libs) will be auto-selected for you. All this sounds more complicated than it really is, trust me. With "smart" you get multimedia and codecs in no time. Also, SUSE has plenty of additional DVD stuff on its channels, e.g. various rippers and conversion tools. Just search for "dvd" or "video" and you get tons of more stuff you may want to install.
Make sure you downgrade (!!) k3b to packman's (*
.pm* in package names!) release, e.g. 0.99.1
.pm.2 ... The SUSE 1.0xxx versions are crippled and don't support MP3 encoding or decoding
The 0.99.pm release will do just fine.
Also, please make sure you read this article: "Hacking OpenSUSE 10.2":
http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/60/
All in all OpenSUSE 10.2 isn't bad, it's management tools are superb ... it's just that if you're used to Mint you may find it's multimedia capabilities quite lacking "out of the box". Hence this small tutorial
