I have recently installed 11.2 on my laptop and am having problems with installing flashplayer.
What happens is I go to install software, select flashplayer to be installed, click apply and the stupid things starts downloading all the upgradable programs. I have not selected any of these to be upgraded as I only have 600mb of downloading left to last me 10 days and won’t waste it on upgrading. Is there a reason for the package manager installing programs that aren’t selected?? Is there a way to use Install Software without this happening??
Thanks caf4926 but this is all I get… ian-lappy ian # zypper in flash-player
bash: zypper: command not found
Very strange.
Please post result of:
uname -a
and
cat /etc/SuSE-release
Got it sorted. I was actually on another machine which has Mint on it when I read your response and without thinking about it ran the command. 
. The zypper command won’t work on a Ubuntu based distro.
Thanks for the work around.
Dude…! You had me going there.
No worries;)
So could someone tell me whether this thing with forced updates is a bug or meant to be that way. Or is there some way I can select what I wish to install or not.
I have been using Suse in 1 form or another since version 9 and don’t remember ever being forced to install nearly 500mb of updates to get flashplayer.
It’s meant to be that way.
It’s meant to bring in dependencies and complimentary packages.
I mostly just let it rip, but I guess it could be a pain if you are a dial up connection or something. I think you have to manually de-select stuff you don’t want.
The thing is it’s not just picking up dependencies of what I want to install…It wants to install all upgradeable programs.
I mostly just let it rip, but I guess it could be a pain if you are a dial up connection or something. I think you have to manually de-select stuff you don’t want.
I’ve tried deselecting/locking all upgradeable packages but as soon as I cick apply it starts downloading all available updates.
On Sat, 01 May 2010 11:36:02 GMT, aussie ian
<aussie_ian@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
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>caf4926;2159742 Wrote:
>> It’s meant to be that way.
>> It’s meant to bring in dependencies and complimentary packages.The thing is it’s not just picking up dependencies of what I want to
>install…It wants to install all upgradeable programs.
>
>> I mostly just let it rip, but I guess it could be a pain if you are a
>> dial up connection or something. I think you have to manually de-select
>> stuff you don’t want.I’ve tried deselecting/locking all upgradeable packages but as soon as I
>cick apply it starts downloading all available updates.
You may wish to install an older version of flash. Try oldversion.com.
Or is it .org?
These are from the Update repo, they have high priority, since these updates are security or bug related.
One other thing I’d like to say since you’re familiar with Ubuntu: Ubuntu used to report the actual download size, where openSUSE reports the size the packages will take on your system. So my guess is the actual download size will be a lot less.
You could also try to install flash-player through here:
Software.openSUSE.org, search for flash-player, pick a one-click-install for your arch.