SUSE Mirrors

Hi LL,
Could you please tell me how to install it?
Thanks,
Ron [/b]

Follow the directions on the page. It tells you exactly what to do.

Follow the directions on the page. It tells you exactly what to do.
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Sorry to be a pest LL,
The directions say
"HOW TO RUN IT (works for both KDE and GNOME users)
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Once kdewebdev is installed it couldn't be easier. However you need to run it as root for it to work - the following is the easiest way:

Open your Application menu -> System -> File manager -> File manager (super-user-mode).

Once Konqueror is running as root, all you have to do is click the on the suse-repokommander-xxx.kmdr and you'll be ready to add repositories and install wonderful software in no time.

You can also run it from the command line:
# kmdr-executor suse-repokommander-xxxx.kmdr".

I go to "su File Manage".I go to the downloaed file click on it but it asks with what to open it. Sorry, I don't know what to use.

Then I try the command line (copy and paste his example) get a message that the file doesn't exist. (with what should I replace the "xxxx" with? I am in the same directory.

Don't you just love us Noob's?

Thx,
Ron

I go to "su File Manage".I go to the downloaed file click on it but it asks with what to open it. Sorry, I don't know what to use.


Don't you just love us Noob's?

Thx,
Ron [/b]

Actually it says; to rick click and save as. You missed that step. It will want to save it as download.php, so rename it as suse-repokomander.kmdr. Then you can execute (as root) kmdr-executor suse-repokomander.kmdr.

If you miss one step, it throws everything off.

Actually it says; to rick click and save as. You missed that step. It will want to save it as download.php, so rename it as suse-repokomander.kmdr. Then you can execute (as root) kmdr-executor suse-repokomander.kmdr.

If you miss one step, it throws everything off.
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Ohh,
I did right click on it and saved it. I didn't know I was to rename it.
Thanks
Ron

Now that was easy

Note that as a user now you don't have to worry in the slightest about chasing down mirrors. Since openSUSE 10.2, we have now started encouraging the use of Metalinks (as the release page notes). Metalinks are small XML files containing the meta-data of almost every mirror. Basically, you plug in this metalink file into a client (aria2 is recommended) and it automatically makes multiple connections to different servers. This means you'll get the fastest ever download this way, and I'm sure it'll always max out your connection

Information at http://opensuse.org/Metalinks

Note that as a user now you don't have to worry in the slightest about chasing down mirrors. Since openSUSE 10.2, we have now started encouraging the use of Metalinks (as the release page notes). Metalinks are small XML files containing the meta-data of almost every mirror. Basically, you plug in this metalink file into a client (aria2 is recommended) and it automatically makes multiple connections to different servers. This means you'll get the fastest ever download this way, and I'm sure it'll always max out your connection

Information at http://opensuse.org/Metalinks
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i always get the torrent, is there an advantage in using metalinks over torrents?

i always get the torrent, is there an advantage in using metalinks over torrents?
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Indeed. As soon as openSUSE is released, the torrent gets flooded, and you have a situation with far more peers than seeders. Of course the torrent will pick up, but metalinks really thrive in this situation. It uses *all* available mirrors (cuts out any searching for you), so speed is still up to maximum, even at release time. For 10.2 there were over 60,000 really fast downloads in just a few days.

Metalinks in general will be much faster than the torrent; like I said, you should pretty much always max out your connection if you use it.

For 10.3 we're going to try to get even better support for them, where we (openSUSE) completely handle our own metalinks, which can also in fact work with torrents as well. A torrent in this case becomes another source to download from, with the metalink.

that konvenientSUSE rpm should be in the wiki not here.
just a thought B)

that konvenientSUSE rpm should be in the wiki not here.
just a thought B)
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Feel free to add it.