Okay I finally decided to install openSUSE and I have a few questions. First and biggest, how do I add the packman repository as one repo? and will doing so add tumbleweed?
Hi,
First thing : do you have some experience with linux distros ? Because I don’t think it is wise to install the Tumbleweed repo.
To add the packman repo :
zypper ar -n packman-essentials http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_11.4/Essentials packman-essentials
zypper ar -n packman-multimedia http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_11.4/Multimedia packman-multimedia
To add the Packman repository in one fell swoop do the following:
YaST / Software / Software Repositories / Add Button (Bottom Left) / Specify URL (The Default) / Next Button (Bottom Right) and enter:
http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_11.4/
I can’t recommend using Tumbleweed until you got your original system working and perhaps not even then unless you really understand what this will be doing.
Thank You,
I have like 6 months of linux experience so idk if that is enough or not but I have used ubuntu 10.10 kubuntu 10.10 mint 10 kmint 9 & 10 and LMDE
and will this include Tumbleweed?
First thing, as said by jdmcdaniels, make sure your system is setup correctly before going in Tumbleweed.
For the Tumbleweed :
zypper ar -n packman http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed packman
And you need :
zypper ar --refresh http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tumbleweed/standard/ Tumbleweed
and you have to do a distro update from Tumbleweed as needed. The first time you will need to accept the GPG key:
zypper dup --from Tumbleweed
I think I will avoid tumbleweed for now. but adding all the packman repos as one will not include tumbleweed right?
Like jdmcdaniels pointed it, that is right. 
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:36:02 +0000, dante19992 wrote:
> I think I will avoid tumbleweed for now. but adding all the packman
> repos as one will not include tumbleweed right?
That is correct. Tumbleweed is not Packman, nor is Packman Tumbleweed.
They are separate repositories.
Jim
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On 2011-04-06 02:36, dante19992 wrote:
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> I think I will avoid tumbleweed for now. but adding all the packman
> repos as one will not include tumbleweed right?
NOOOOO!
Tumbleweed is not related AT ALL to packman.
Sigh!
And no, six month experience is not enough if you don’t know what
tumbleweed is (and what packman is) - and you don’t.
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okay thanks people. and of course I have no idea what Tumbleweed and packman are when guides show them in the same guide with the same title for the packman all-in-one repository. as well I have used only debian/ubuntu based distros as such I would never have a need to use packman.
okay thanks people. and of course I have no idea what Tumbleweed and packman are when guides show them in the same guide with the same title for the packman all-in-one repository. as well I have used only debian/ubuntu based distros as such I would never have a need to use packman.
I would like to suggest you do some reading in this section:
New User How To/FAQ (read only)
In order to update your files on your PC, we use YaST and we obtain the files from on-line repositories. We suggest you get by by adding in only the Packman repository, to primarily update files for multimedia usage. You may also need to obtain the libdvdcss file to view DVD movies. To use openSUSE 11.4, you don’t really need to load anything else and doing so might render some or all of your openSUSE installation useless.
Tumbleweed is not something you smoke but a repository that can update your entire copy of openSUSE with, not just for security or bugs like normal, but to the most recent Linux versions of all applications on your PC. You would do this instead of using the slower update cycle like waiting for the next main openSUSE version 11.5 or 12.0 or what ever it may be called (about every eight months). In general, massive updates of all applications can cause issues with your openSUSE installation for no good reason. It is one thing to switch to the next major revision every eight months and quite another to upgrade every time any support application comes out with its next major revision and without the same kind of testing that goes into the main version of openSUSE.
It is hard to recommend this to a new user and not something I have even decided to embrace myself. When something works, why are you trying to fix it? We know that at some point you do need to upgrade, by why do it so often? It is something to consider with Tumbleweed.
Thank You,
I believe that there is a Packman/tumbleweed repo but that is for when you are tumbling with the tumbleweeds not when you are doing a normal distribution. Note the commands given above the first zypper command was to add the tumbleweed version of Packman
On 2011-04-06 03:36, dante19992 wrote:
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> okay thanks people. and of course I have no idea what Tumbleweed and
> packman are when guides show them in the same guide with the same title
> for the packman all-in-one repository. as well I have used only
> debian/ubuntu based distros as such I would never have a need to use
> packman.
>
>
http://en.opensuse.org/Restricted_formats
http://www.opensuse-community.org/Restricted_formats
Packman is a repo we use mainly for downloading multimedia stuff that Novel
can not provide, legally. Thanks to them we can do things like playing mp3
or watching videos.
Basically you need the “packman essentials” repo.
Tumbleweed is a variant of factory, a somewhat stabilized version of the
testing or development repo. It is new, unstable, and needs experience to
solve problems. Not for newcommers. Read their wiki.
It is as well a different version of the distro!
As such, same as packman has a factory repo, they also have one for
tumbleweed. Maybe your confusion come from this.
You really need to start here:
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
On 04/06/2011 02:36 AM, dante19992 wrote:
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> idk
please use real words when possible…not everyone here are native
english speakers or daily users of mobile devices…
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On 2011-04-06 02:53, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:36:02 +0000, dante19992 wrote:
>
>> I think I will avoid tumbleweed for now. but adding all the packman
>> repos as one will not include tumbleweed right?
>
> That is correct. Tumbleweed is not Packman, nor is Packman Tumbleweed.
> They are separate repositories.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
On 2011-04-06 02:53, Jim Henderson wrote:
> That is correct. Tumbleweed is not Packman, nor is Packman Tumbleweed.
> They are separate repositories.
Tumbleweed is not a repo, it is a distro version, same as factory, 11,4,
11.3, 11.2, etc.
And pacman has repos for all those versions, including tumbleweed.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:33:08 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2011-04-06 02:53, Jim Henderson wrote:
>
>> That is correct. Tumbleweed is not Packman, nor is Packman Tumbleweed.
>> They are separate repositories.
>
> Tumbleweed is not a repo, it is a distro version, same as factory, 11,4,
> 11.3, 11.2, etc.
>
> And pacman has repos for all those versions, including tumbleweed.
That’s certainly true - and a very good clarification.
Jim
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