2 things I want to do but need help.

chrispche · April 30, 2011, 8:27pm

I have successfully installed 11.4 with Gnome 2, after the disaster that was Ubuntu 11.04. I have now made a permanent switch to openSUSE and I like it a lot. However, 2 things that is missing from my life is Screenlets and VLC player. Does anyone have any idea how I go about installing these.

Thanks in advance.

john_hudson · April 30, 2011, 8:33pm

Not sure about Screenlets but Multimedia in One Click will point you in the right direction for VLC.

martin_helm · April 30, 2011, 9:07pm

john hudson wrote:

>
> Not sure about Screenlets but ‘Multimedia in One Click’
> (http://tinyurl.com/68omn5o) will point you in the right direction for
> VLC.
>
There are prebuilt packages for the screenlets in the openSUSE buildservice
http://tinyurl.com/3msxprh
both are home projects, so not official. I tried the maxge73 which worked
well on 11.4 for me (I always test that before I update my wife’s notebook
because she insists on having them and she runs gnome).
As always the advice: Be careful when adding such repositories, disable them
after install to avoid trouble with mixed repos. It can break things.

chrispche · April 30, 2011, 9:44pm

Thank you people.

oldcpu · April 30, 2011, 10:07pm

You may have to wait a bit for vlc. The openSUSE build service has a very recent bug, which has prevented the packman packagers from rebuilding vlc for openSUSE-11.4. Hopefully the problem will be sorted soon.