I am trying to test 12.2 from a USB stick. The first thing I wanted to test was simple web browsing. Flash is not included and unfortunately flash is still essential. I eventually started software manager after having tripped over apper. I selected flash and said install. I was presented with a list of about 227 package updates which software manager said were dependencies. Perhaps they are dependencies but if so, the live part of kde live is not very useful.
Is there any way of installing flash without the 227 package updates. I suspect that a lot of the updates are generated by initial packaging and not as a result of installing flash. While it is always possible I am not convinced that the libreoffice uk English help package is really a dependency of flash.
I have also been looking at ubuntu 12.4 lts live running on from a usb stick. Flash installed in about 30 seconds
I am not interested in libreoffice. What I want do do is just install the flash player plugin for firefox so that I can get basic browsing working. I access many sites where flash in mandatory. If I select flash in software management, SM wants to pull in 227 packages. With 227 packages I may as well do a full install and kde live is pointless for testing.
You can try downloading tarball from Adobe site (chose correct 32 vs. 64 bit version) and extracting libflashplayer.so into /usr/lib64/browser-plugins. Basically that is what package installation does.
Maybe people can answer better when you tell what is on the USB stick. A ful installed system, a live system (from a LIve CD)? These are very different, but share the same hardware they are stored on, which is all you told us.
Sorry, my fault, I skipped direct to the text and should have contemplated the title first.
A live system is read-only. Something that is obvious when it is in a CD. But I guess that the same is true even when you use an USB stick. Thus you can not install software, which should of cource gi into the system files on the CD/USB-stick.
That would be the best option you have. The LiveCD’s are not meant to run and extend as if they were a full appliance. Using the Build Service though, you could create an appliance that runs of a USB stick and has bigger “/” partition and a separate /home. It would never be as fast as a “real” install though. You could also perform an install to an external harddisk or 16GB USB stick, instead of to the internal harddisk.
I was under the impression that the spare space on the USB stick was available for persistent system changes. Note that Ubuntu live running from a usb stick does allow flash player to be installed in about 30 seconds.
Am 26.09.2012 21:16, schrieb vindevienne:
> I was under the impression that the spare space on the USB stick was
> available for persistent system changes. Note that Ubuntu live
> running from a usb stick does allow flash player to be installed in
> about 30 seconds.
>
That should work with an openSUSE live usb as well, it worked that way
with 12.1 KDE live on usb, I have not tested 12.2 though.
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Thanks, I shall try that. I normally use yast software manager rather than zypper directly and thought that it might be possible with zypper.
I do not understand the people who build KDE Live. It is supposed to tempt people to move to opensuse. With kde live you can start firefox and browse the web but a lot of sites will not work as they use flash. You go to install/remove software select flash and you get presented with a list of 227 dependencies which obviously are not dependencies. It is crazy but probably a design feature.
Am 26.09.2012 23:56, schrieb vindevienne:
> I do not understand the people who build KDE Live. It is supposed to
> tempt people to move to opensuse. With kde live you can start firefox
> and browse the web but a lot of sites will not work as they use flash.
> You go to install/remove software select flash and you get presented
> with a list of 227 dependencies which obviously are not dependencies. It
> is crazy but probably a design feature.
>
>
This are no dependencies, when you first open yast software management
it notices all the updates which are available since the live image was
built, also some recommended packages and automatically preselects them.
In general a good thing for an installed system, for the live system not
so good.
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PC: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.8.4 | GeForce GT 420
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.9.1 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 12.2 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10