New to SuSE, where do you find new software?

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#1

I’m moving from Ubuntu and after trying Fedora and finding it lacking, decided to try SuSE. So far, I like it.

I installed Gnome 3 and it works fine. I’ve also followed the instructions to add the missing Yast menu item back so I have access to the Yast control panel. My question is, other than Yast and software.opensuse.org: Download openSUSE 11.4, where should I be looking for software? Especially stuff that might be “restricted” like codecs, etc.

Am I missing any options or repositories? And what is Packman and should I be using that instead of the other two options?

#2

To begin you will probably only need four repos, oss, non-oss, updates and Packman:

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/non-oss/
http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/
http://packman.mirrors.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.4/

Packman provides most multimedia support. See Carl’s sticky on this,

Multimedia in One Click

#3

On 2011-04-24 05:06, Visceral wrote:
>
> My question is, other than Yast and
> ‘software.opensuse.org: Download openSUSE 11.4’
> (http://software.opensuse.org), where should I be looking for software?
> Especially stuff that might be “restricted” like codecs, etc.

http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories

http://www.opensuse-community.org/Restricted_formats

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

#4

In addition to the excellent advice you have been given already, you may also find this guide of interest: openSUSE software installation hints

#5

Excellent answers, thank you.

#6

Hmm checking out that page that I referenced, I see now the recent updates to Packman have made most of my examples obsolete ! Guess I’ll have to update that guide. < sigh >

#7

OK, I updated the how-to guide: openSUSE software installation hints removing the link to a defunct webpin (replacing it with a Link to the packman packager search engine) and replacing the ‘camorama’ example with a ‘tea’ example.