Installing from another package managers

I’ve just switched to Tumbleweed from windows+ubuntu and was trying to install my working apps using zypper. I need to install “Xfoil” (terminal-based program for aerodynamics), and in ubuntu I did it using
apt-get install xfoil.
Similar command using zypper didn’t work (not found in package names). Tried adding packman repo and either I don’t know how to use it or it didn’t help.

I guess there should be a way to do it, because it would be strange to not be able to install a 1.3Mb app specifically on openSUSE, so help will be appreciated

And yeah, there is a downloadable .tar.gz file at xfoil’s site, but it requires to make 3 makefiles with correct fortran flags, and I have no clue how to find which ones I need

Is this what you are looking for?

Not really, this one

And then I don’t understand what to do with this site

Why would it be strange? You are talking not about app (source code is available, just compile it), but about package. Packages do not appear by themselves - somebody needs to package this app and maintain it. Apparently nobody was interested or motivated enough.

If you do not have experience to either compile or, even better, to maintain this package for openSUSE, you may consider using distrobox with Debian package as an alternative.

https://software.opensuse.org/package/xflr5

XFLR5 is a design tool intended for the design and analysis of reduced scaled model airplanes. It includes the XFoil program for the analysis of airfoils.

Add repo & install:

Add repository and install manually

For openSUSE Tumbleweed run the following as root:
 zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/science.repo 
 zypper refresh 
 zypper install xflr5

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