Opensuse 10.3 (32-bit) Kde & Gnome - Some Packages+dependencies, M

#1 (**permalink**) 31-May-2008, 11:00

Hi everyone
This is my last post of the kind for OpenSuSE 10.3. The next is going to be from OpenSuSE 11.0
I have included the usual multimedia packages for easy installation:

kchmviewer
mplayer
audacious
k3b, k3b-codecs
sox
devede
audacity
avidemux
ffmpeg
transcode
ntfs-config
vlc
libdvdcss
w32codecs
gimp24

Besides these I have included all the files required to upgrade the default KDE/GNOME install till date. This makes the download quite huge, one GB to be exact. See attachment at the end of this post for the complete list (list.txt). Those who do not wish to perform this massive upgrade my refer my earlier posts.

Files to download (total eleven files):
http://rapidshare.com/files/118823518/01.zip md5sum 0de570976a79e6f48161d416f35f63f0
http://rapidshare.com/files/118837511/02.zip md5sum e25247f2b3ad22bf68671892eaf45d03
http://rapidshare.com/files/118846505/03.zip md5sum 3aef2a89da2b0a7cebea95b2da7d696a
http://rapidshare.com/files/118855053/04.zip md5sum aaab8b447e57e7dc86537cfc1b335d88
http://rapidshare.com/files/118864868/05.zip md5sum d283013a8980f6b6f6f799fb37e467e3
http://rapidshare.com/files/118874131/06.zip md5sum 62ea25a9d7d1f7b747b5756f29d30caf
http://rapidshare.com/files/118883904/07.zip md5sum 299622fdaacf466fb56b64902e4d408f
http://rapidshare.com/files/118892820/08.zip md5sum d003337fd247d4048aa2d77ce53672f8
http://rapidshare.com/files/118901159/09.zip md5sum d9d407178d8061743abcb5d2fd0a3924
http://rapidshare.com/files/118909630/10.zip md5sum 8ec7ab8f59426c3a06b9ce29c3d78211
http://rapidshare.com/files/118916256/11.zip md5sum 6b204c9e3b3e828f4357a15a6388b736

OR

Bittorrent

Both the above sources contain the same zip files so you can use both.

Create a folder called updates in your home directory and extract all the files to it. They should not be in subfolders but in the root of the updates folder itself.

This time we are going to use Zypper
Zypper is installed by default with your OpenSuSE KDE/GNOME installation. If not you can install it through YaST->Software Management form the OpenSuSE 10.3 DVD.

Steps: (all commands are italicised, they are to be typed normally into a terminal)

Press Alt and F2, a run dialog box will open
Type zypper update and press ENTER, and type y to confirm when prompted to do so and press ENTER
Your system will now be updated.

All the best!!!!!!

References:
http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper
http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Usage

Sources:
ftp://mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.opensus.../10.3/repo/oss/
ftp://mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.opensus...3/repo/non-oss/
http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/10.3/
http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/10.3/
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositor.../openSUSE_10.3/
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositor.../openSUSE_10.3/
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositor.../openSUSE_10.3/
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositor.../openSUSE_10.3/
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositor.../openSUSE_10.3/
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositor.../openSUSE_10.3/
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositor.../openSUSE_10.3/
ftp://mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.opensus...se/update/10.3/

#2 (**permalink**) 31-May-2008, 12:38

Kaweh one of our new users sent me this PM.

Quote:

Hi!

I just downloaded you pack of programs for PCs not connected to the internet, thank you so much, it really eased work.

I installed VLC media player on my fathers PC (connected to the internet) in like 30 sec. with yast and the package manager - and then I decided to install it on my offline PC, but everytime I downloaded a .rpm it said it needs this and that other .rpm to work...

So, to come to the point, I wonder how you manage to download all the .rpms a program like VLC needs? I mean, I can go to packman or some similiar site, and download the VLC .rpm, but what about all other .rpms I'm gonna need on the offline PC?

Is there a way to JUST download all the .rpms a program is going to need via YAST, without installing them, in order to copy them to an offline PC?

Or, how did you manage to find all the .rpms that are connected to each other? What's the easiest and fastest way for someone like me to download a program like VLC with all the .rpms it needs?

Thanks for taking time and reading this, it would help me so much if you could give me an answer to my questions!

Greetings,

K.K[/b]

Let me tell you how I pull this off

When I started in December I used to do this using YaST->Software Management.

Procedure:
1. Open YaST
2. Open Software Repositories and add the required repos (see end of above post for sources I have used).
3. Open Software Management. Let's try an example. I want to install arccad. So I search for arccad and mark it for install. Now when I click continue I get the following message form YaST telling me dependencies have to be resolved, three in this case

4. So I press the Print Screen button on my keyboard to take a screenshot, save it, and click cancel in this dependency resolution window.

5. Now in the search box, search for the packages listed in the dependency window, this is where your screenshot becomes handy. You will see that YaST has already marked the packages; highlight them by clicking on them and click on the versions tab below as shown in these two images

6. Now I can see the source of the dependency. With Kwrite open I note these down one by one, and then download them.
7. I then create a folder in my Home directory with all these dependencies and the rpm of the program I want to install.
8. Add this to YaST-> Software Sources as a rpm dir repository and disable all other repositories, except the OpenSuSE DVD.
9. If I have got all the dependencies correctly it should resolve and install without a hitch. If not go back to YaST and try to see what went wrong

As you can see the whole process is quite cumbersome.

Now for this thread of one GB software install, I followed a different method. This is far simpler than the above.

Procedure:
1. Open YaST and install smart-gui
2. After this close YaST, Open a konsole and type su and become root
3. Type smart --gui, this will open the smart package manager

#3 (**permalink**) 31-May-2008, 12:43

5. Click on edit->channels

6. Click search and mark various software for installation, dependencies will be automatically resolved. Then click on edit->upgrade all

This will upgrade the system.
Go through the entire package list in the popup that comes and search for packages with i686 (if you have an i686 architecture like me). You will have to make a note of those and download the corresponding i586 packages if you want to make redistributable updates like I do that will work well on both i586 and i686.
Click apply (the cogwheel icon) update.

7. After the update open Konqueror in superuser mode and go to /var/lib/smart/packages to see all the packages with dependencies, copy them to a folder in your home directory and if you want, change the ownership on the folder in your home directory and its contents by right clicking on it and changing the ownership in the permissions tab.

You might be wondering why have I not used smart in the above post to update the system; I ran into a lot of trouble. Smart looks for the gpg keys and gets pissed off on not finding them. I did not find a smart install packagename; this is why I used zypper.

Anyway you have to copy all those packages to a /var/lib/smart/packages in a GNOME install, add all the repos as above and start the update. Only the addiitonal packages will be downloaded which is not much.

#4 (**permalink**) 31-May-2008, 14:00

Thank you for answering my questions and describing quite detailed the approach you take! It seems to be quite a time-consuming process, but at least it makes sense now. ^^ The easiest way still is to install the programs with an active internet connection via yast, but at least now I know what to do.

K.K

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