A have just installed OpenSuse 11.2
after starting up, I opened firefox, there was a missing plugin -> flash player, so I was presented with a window showing flash player, gnash, etc. chosed flash player plugin, but then the software manager began to download and install Java !
I closed it, and opened yast software manager manually, I see a big list of changes (packs to be installed) that I chosed none of them.
After that I figured out that those packs are actually what’s listed under the group “Recommended”, so my question is:
do I have to install all those packs for the system to function well (I don’t think so, esp. that many of them are spell dicts and stuff like that).
I will just select what I think I need from them and disable others, is that wrong?
Because updates have been released for the software that shipped with 11.2 and it will automatically install them to keep your system up to date - you know, the main reason so many people are part of zombie networks around the globe, they don’t update their software.
My question is very dumb, I quickly posted it before trying to figure it out myself, those packs are recommended because they extend already installed ones, it’s not necessary to install them.
Just forget about it.
TaraIkeda wrote:
> For multimedia you may want to try this:
> ‘Restricted Formats/11.2 - openSUSE-Community’
> (http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats/11.2)
>
> It should cover most of the bases, openSUSE does not come with codecs
> by default.
Doing that adds several repositories - should they be disabled
afterwards? Seems an awful lot of posts in the past had to do with the
“repository soup” creating conflicts due to different libs/vendors.
Be nice to keep the system clean and tuned from the git-go…
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I can not get flash player to install with yast, I did try to do what you suggested, I tried to install the stand alone package and the web plug in application, anyhow in yast this starts downloading, installling all wonderfuly … it finishes with saying to me … “flashplayer 10. … could not install” i cant tell you why, it doesnt say anything … help please?
I want to use linux but every little task is so hard to achieve … maybe i need a mentor rotfl! …
Thank you Chrysantine, as you asked there were no problems, if not of bad connection… the usual hassle with 3g providers …
it did finishe ok after downloading all repositories, thus everything fine, I did understand i had to get into ROOT user with SU and that it installed FLASH-PLAYER with ZYPPER but that -C option what is it?
Thank you Chrystine for the help and the how to install the flash player … I reallydo have a lot to learn…
There is a small problem, i used youtube.com to test the flash player but on the site it redirects me to the adobe flash download site, why?, i even can see the player in the recent installed programs … i even tried using the player to view the same video of the same web page and nothing happens… any suggestins or is it like windows, need to reboot in order to get the software working?
I tried to close firefox, the download window and then restart but nothing, then I noticed if I did try to view a video it asked me again to download the flah player from adobe, I did that and now it works nearly perfectly, the only issue is I can’t pause it and I can’t hear the sound (will get that sorted or ask for help in another thread as it is a problem with hardware) … theres allways something with linux? … rotfl!
Thank you for the explanation of the option -C, can I try this string even with other software?
It’s better to use “su -” and then zypper in something if you’re installing multiple packages and unsure if you want to install more. su - itself without any parameters will switch to root privileges until you close the shell by typing exit
Remember you can install several things at once with zypper, for example zypper in joe nano pico emacs and so forth.
If the packages include Java plugins and Flash, then they are important, but only if you do things online that require Java and Flash (like watching videos on YouTube). I would recommend that if you know you don’t have these plugins installed (they are not pre-installed on a new openSUSE installation), install these packages.
One more thing: be sure to install the AMR packages from YaST: they are the codecs that play human speech. Without them, you’ll get any musical sound you want to play but no speech sounds, like a person talking etc.
