After upgrading to 11.2 I’m trying to install required codecs for restricted formats and following the advice that is given, and starting at “Step 1”, making sure that I have at least the OSS, non-OSS etc. repos.
For some reason, when I try to add community repositories through yast, I get a Warning pop-up, stating “Unable to download list of repositories or no repositories defined”.
Am I doing something wrong? If tried about 20 times…and so far no luck.
Any suggestions?
It’s the weekend and I’d love to be able to watch a movie or listen to music!
Sorry to ask a stoopid question, but I don’t know them. I thought that in the past, I had just checked the “community repositories” box clicked next and a list of repos was provided. I’m trying to follow the steps listed here Repositories/11.2 - openSUSE-Community
No. I’m cautious about deleting anything since I don’t really know the implications.
Do you mean delete the repo with the URI cd:///?
I installed the other three. Thanks for the tip. I should now proceed to installing packman and libdvdcss? (I know this isn’t really the place for that question ;-))
Thanks to you both. I’ve tried working my way through both sets of instructions and there is still a problem (of my own creation, no doubt) relating to installing the repos.
With regard to the instructions given at the URL suggested by caf4926:
When in YaST2, using the add repositories function I have for both repos tried checking the “specify URL” option and cutting and pasting the URL. In both cases I get the error message “couldn’t resolve host…”
My assumption is that I should be using the HTTP option, but that doesn’t give a result either, giving the same error message (when I enter, for example, server: download.videolan.org, directory: pub/vlc/SuSE/11.2/).
Please tell me, what am I doing wrong.
The most frustrating thing is that I can see the directories in my browser so I know that the URLs given in the multimedia help page are good!
Are you right clicking the url > copy link location
then paste that in the url section (using http method)
Give an appropriate name
then move on from there.
I don’t think its that. IPv6 is not disabled, but it isn’t enabled, i.e. it’s left unchecked.
Also want to stress that although my connection seems patchy, it is working and I can use Skype and dload torrents via opera etc. So bearing in mind I have that degree of connectivity I wouldn’t have thought it would be a problem to add the repos?
Are there alternative options (locations or methods) for obtaining the codecs? Since I can find the location in my browser is there a manual way? Like moving the content to a local folder or something?
With regard to my post above, should I have deleted any of those repos listed? And are the other settings OK?
I keep getting kupdate applet errors too if I manually refresh I get the following message: DBus error : Unable to get transaction id from packagekit.
I’m not sure if this a connectivity problem or not.
Since I can access the folders via a browser is there some way to install the required packages “manually”?
On a separate note can anyone explain why since adding repos, I now have a boot screen featuring penguins in the snow, and twice as many boot options (pae?) as before?
Also why foes this appear to be harder than for 11.1? I have no memory of going through all of this before, and could play all of my media. Right now, I’ve got nothing but FLAC.