I was forced to freshly install Tumbleweed on my laptop and much has changed and much has broken, but I’ll take one thing at a time. I need to install SCID chess database software urgently but I cannot:
Error:
Zod:~ # zypper in scid
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
Problem: 1: nothing provides 'python' needed by the to be installed scid-4.7.0-1699.4.pm.72.x86_64
Solution 1: do not install scid-4.7.0-1699.4.pm.72.x86_64
Solution 2: break scid-4.7.0-1699.4.pm.72.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies
Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/c/d/?] (c):
Apparently Python 2.X isn’t included anymore (to which it had a Python symlink) so I created my own to Python 3.X:
This package is from packman. The dependencies seems no longer available in Tumbleweed. You may contact packman on their mailing list for a rebuild of the package.
Shame. I have a tournament in a few days that I need to prepare for. Ubuntu it is. Quite disconcerting that on a fresh install, which inevitably will be necessary, that things will not work as they did before.
All to install a chess database. Well I never. I suppose I could use Flatpak but I have no experience with that.
I think there should be a caveat with Tumbleweed: once installed, update and leave it alone forever, and when you need a new hard drive, go see a shrink and prepare yourself.
Thanks, Malcolm. I tried Leap some years ago but It was not as good as either Linux Mint or Fedora in my experience. Tumbleweed with XFCE has been mostly good and it’s grown on me, warts and all.
Maybe Aeon or NixOS would be more suitable? No idea. Maybe I should just go back to Ubuntu permanently, or Mint. The basics have to work or else what are we doing here? I know we are the guinea pigs, but Richard Brown might be right.
If you are using Tumbleweed, you are strongly advised to follow factory mailing list. It has been discussed just recently (if what happened can be called “discussion” of course …).
erlangen:~ # zypper if scid
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Information for package scid:
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Repository : home:dsterba:chess
Name : scid
Version : 4.7.0-3.28
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : obs://build.opensuse.org/home:dsterba
Installed Size : 19.0 MiB
Installed : Yes
Status : up-to-date
Source package : scid-4.7.0-3.28.src
Upstream URL : http://scid.sourceforge.net/
Summary : A chess database application
Description :
Scid can perform many different searches, such as for particular
players, a certain opening position, material searches, and pattern
searches such as isolated pawns. It is very fast, because it uses its
own efficient format, but it can convert games to and from PGN, the
standard format for chess game files.
Scid can use a chess engine such as Crafty to analyze games and also
has a "tree" mode where it automatically shows all moves played from
the current position, their opening codes, success rates, etc.
erlangen:~ #
I do too; just not on the system that I did a fresh install on. Something changed. My VPN also cannot be installed and XFCE keeps freezing among other things. What a pain, eh?