For the life of me, I have read the manual and on my KDE desktop I cant find package management. All of the sources say to open Yast, but when I do it looks nothing like the pictures, all I see is a bunch of selections for managing the system in two lateral menus. I do not see anything in the menu for installing new packages all there is in the top left corner is a file type menu and a round button that does nothing. Thank you all very much!
Lets try running updates, open a terminal
su -
zypper up
Perhaps post a screenshot of what you see. Might help…
File:YaST2-openSUSE-11.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sorry I don’t have any software to take a snapshot :’( but this picture is exactly what I see.
I just found the software part Duh. But when it tries to update it says
an error occurred during repository initialization
|] valid metadata not found at specified URL
History:
-|] repository type can’t be determined
Open a console and show us the output of
zypper lr
You can use the knosole menu to copy then paste her between code tags the # option on the web sites editor.
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh
---+---------------------------+------------------------------------+---------+--------
1 | openSUSE-12.3-1.7 | openSUSE-12.3-1.7 | Yes | No
2 | openSUSE:Factory | openSUSE:Factory | Yes | Yes
3 | openSUSE:Factory:NonFree | openSUSE:Factory:NonFree | Yes | Yes
4 | repo-debug | openSUSE-12.3-Debug | No | Yes
5 | repo-debug-update | openSUSE-12.3-Update-Debug | No | Yes
6 | repo-debug-update-non-oss | openSUSE-12.3-Update-Debug-Non-Oss | No | Yes
7 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-12.3-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes
8 | repo-oss | openSUSE-12.3-Oss | Yes | Yes
9 | repo-source | openSUSE-12.3-Source | No | Yes
10 | repo-update | openSUSE-12.3-Update | Yes | Yes
11 | repo-update-non-oss | openSUSE-12.3-Update-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes
First of all, immediately remove those 2 Factory repos! They will break your system… (Factory is where the next openSUSE version is developed, it’s Beta right now)
Do this in YaST->Software Repositories, or type the following in a terminal window:
sudo zypper rr 2 3
Then run:
sudo zypper dup
to remove any Factory packages from your system.
And please post for what repo you get that error message. Might be a temporary problem though.
That was a little scary 
The sudo zypper rr 2 3 worked fine and then I did the sudo zypper dup, and it said removing 2 and installing 9 updates. went through a big agreement list and said “yes” then a endless line of ys went down the screen. Closed the terminal, Pulse audio crashes, got that going again.
But ya, when I go into the package manager now it does not throw up errors thanks! (hopefully everything works out fine from now on.) But I think the reason those repos were in there was because I used the ine click install to get Flash working and probably forgot to uncheck the Factory repo.
The last bit means you installed Flash for Factory. Re. one click, mind that you do use the correct openSUSE version.
Plus: the software manager already has repos configured, containing (almost) everything needed for a proper desktop experience. If you miss something ( and in the case of Flash a mere update session would have automagically installed Flash), use the software manager to find out if it’s already available. This guarantees that you use the packages for your installed version.
But from that list of repos I have what is the standard OpenSUSE repo? and is there some other repos I can add (or remove) so I will have a rich amount of software to chose from?
Flash-player was switched to the 12.3 version and that was its license agreement.
No idea about your problems with the ‘y’ and pulseaudio though. But well, I don’t know which other Factory packages you maybe already had installed. 
So if everything is working now, I’d say don’t worry about that…
Well, the repo set you have now are the standard openSUSE repos.
Of course you can add additional repos or install packages via 1-click install (which adds the respective repo(s) as well by default), but as Knurpht already said, make sure they are for openSUSE 12.3, not Factory or any other version.
And it’s better to be conservative about adding repos if you are not sure what you are doing. The more you have, the higher the chance that they may contain incompatible packages. But normally YaST and zypper don’t switch packages between repos automatically anyway, as a safety measure (“vendor-stickiness”).
One repo that you probably should add in any case, is Packman. This contains all the unrestricted multimedia stuff, and a lot of other additional software.
Just go into YaST->Software Repositories, click on “Add”, and choose “Community Repositories” (should be selected by default). In the list that appears then you should find “Packman”.
Then switch all packages to the Packman versions: go into YaST->Software Management, choose View->Repositories, select the Packman repo in the list on the left and then click on “Switch all system packages to the versions from this Repository” above the package list on the right.
Or type “sudo zypper dup --from Packman” in a terminal window.
On 2013-09-19 09:56, burialhound wrote:
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> But from that list of repos I have what is the standard OpenSUSE repo?
> 7 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-12.3-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes
> 8 | repo-oss | openSUSE-12.3-Oss | Yes | Yes
> 10 | repo-update | openSUSE-12.3-Update | Yes | Yes
> 11 | repo-update-non-oss | openSUSE-12.3-Update-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes
The standard set is what the installer creates at install time. Anything
else is extra.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)