Synaptic & Respositories

user · July 16, 2009, 7:13pm

I have been using Ubuntu/Kubuntu for about 1 1/2 years and have decided to give openSUSE a go. I burned an 11.2 Live CD and installed. Installation went fine, grub worked fine. I as able to find my Wifi and so far have only instlled APT which added some repo’s to my sources.list. I want to add Synaptic, maybe as a cruch until I get used to YaST. I cannot find it anywhere. I think my sources.list needs much more added to it. Where can I find a comprehensive listing of repo’s to add. I want to upgrade to KDE4.3 and have the latest OO, codecs, kaffeine, google earth, frostwire and Firefox. I am familiar with using .deb files but Yast handled the RPM’s for me. I was a bit scared to try something new i guess. I am running a Dell E1505 I wou ld love to have my on screen volume level back. I got it with Kubuntu, can I have it here also? Sorry for being so wordy, I guess I am a bit excited to dive into a new distro. Reminds me of playing with DOS.

malcolmlewis · July 16, 2009, 7:38pm

mschraier:

I have been using Ubuntu/Kubuntu for about 1 1/2 years and have decided
to give openSUSE a go. I burned an 11.2 Live CD and installed.
Installation went fine, grub worked fine. I as able to find my Wifi and
so far have only instlled APT which added some repo’s to my
sources.list. I want to add Synaptic, maybe as a cruch until I get used
to YaST. I cannot find it anywhere. I think my sources.list needs much
more added to it. Where can I find a comprehensive listing of repo’s to
add. I want to upgrade to KDE4.3 and have the latest OO, codecs,
kaffeine, google earth, frostwire and Firefox. I am familiar with using
deb files but Yast handled the RPM’s for me. I was a bit scared to try
something new i guess. I am running a Dell E1505 I wou ld love to have
my on screen volume level back. I got it with Kubuntu, can I have it
here also? Sorry for being so wordy, I guess I am a bit excited to dive
into a new distro. Reminds me of playing with DOS.

Hi
The openSuSE equivalent to apt-get is zypper from the CLI. Else have a
look here;
Search?

Note it’s best to stick with the main repositories to start with…
oss, non-oss, update and packman. Any applications added by one-click
should be disable via YaST or zypper.

This is also worth a read Concepts - openSUSE Wiki

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user · July 16, 2009, 9:37pm

i will give it a go tonite, assuming family life does nto get in the way.

user · July 17, 2009, 3:51pm

OK, i made sure that the repo’s that wre suppose to be added with the install were there, and they were. I then added the repo’s for KDE 4.2.4. I used that version in Kubuntu with good success. It did not automatically upgrade the KDE. the 4.2.4 files are listed in YaST. How do I now go to 4.2.4? Do I just check off every listing and uncheck the 4.1.3?? I hope that going to 4.2.4 will patch up a few things. It did before.

malcolmlewis · July 17, 2009, 4:09pm

Hi
Have a read of this howto submission
http://forums.opensuse.org/how-faq-read-only/unreviewed-how-faq/417545-kde4-name-changes-making-transition-howto.html

I’m not the KDE4 expert hopefully caf4926 will offer further
advice…

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