Hi everyone,
I’m slowly migrating to Linux from Windows and have tried both Mint and Leap 15.3
As a novice, I found that Mint had more applications to install and use from the outset via Software Manager, but things are different with opnSUSE with not so many apps available.
I’ve managed to install the Packman repo so tried the same with Snapcraft. I’ve installed it and YasT Software Manager shows it as active, but when I search for something I know is in the Snap store and not the default repos, I always draw a blank - Search never finds anything.
I must be overlooking something. I installed one program direct from the Snap Store via my web browser. It gave code to do it via Konsole. However, I can’t find it anywhere to run it. Does this mean I can only run some programs via the command line and have GUI available? That makes it hard for me.
I didn’t know about that link - thank you. I was searching using YasT Software as I can’t get Discovery to work - it always errors with Internet Connectivity problem, which there isn’t.
Using the link you posted shows that the programs I’m looking for are not available, but they are on Mint and Windows
The last one is available on a non Suse repo, but not for Leap 15.3
As I mentioned, I have somehow installed sabnzbd+ via Snapcraft webpage, but can’t find it on my system which makes me think it’s command line only - which is no good for me as novice. I need a GUI for now
Question about repositories - I have installed the Snapcraft repo, so in order to use it, do I have to manually switch to that repo from Packman, or should a search look through all repos?
If I need to switch repos, how do I do that?
It is webbased only. If you installed is as a Snap, you should find it on http://localhost:8080 in your webbrowser. Maybe you will need to tweak or disable firewall, if you enabled it during installation
First thing to check is if you press the start button and type in “sabnzbd”, does it show up? If you it is in the menu’s only on a place you did not expect.
Looks to me you can use the command line to install the snap-store but after that you can further use the GUI:
Thank you for your reply.
sabnzbd doesn’t show up anywhere - even using Search. As mentioned in the other reply, it is web based and I can now access it via Firefox.
Thanks also for the YouTube link. That is the exact way I installed Snap Store in Leap 15.3
However, I can’t work out how to find it’s GUI as it is not listed anywhere like sabnzbd. I know the video shows it being installed on Ubuntu and then should appear under System Tools, but I can’t find it anywhere on openSUSE.
When I install programs which I can not find in the DE (Desktop Environment) start menu I go for the following options:
I know what the executable name is. Then I
1.a) (On KDE) try “alt+F2” and enter the file name. That should start it if it is “known” to the DE and in the executable path. Or
1.b) I open a terminal window (on KDE) I use konsole and enter the file name. Again, if it’s found in the $PATH it should be started or show error messages which you can post here.
I don’t know the executable name. I find in most convenient to start YaST and go to Software Management - search for the package (“SABnzbd” I assume). Then I go to the tab “File List”. All executables are in bold letters. Also, such files are most likely in “/bin/”, “/usr/bin/”, “~/bin/”. I try these - carefully - according to 1. Before doing that I also search for “readme”, “doc”, “man” and similar files that might provide info from the programmers.