P.S.
On the rare occasions that I have needed or wanted a software package that is not in one of the standard trusted repos (e.g. the “official” suse repos, packman, videolan, nvidia), I have downloaded the source rpms and/or code and compiled locally using rpmbuild, and occasionally, old the old fashioned way (.configure/make/make install) in /usr/local.
If you have never compiled code before, I image the prospect of doing so is intimidating. Fortunately, It sounds MUCH harder than it actually is …
Well written and well designed code is almost always easy to build.
If you encounter all kinds of crazy problems building the binaries, that should be your first hint that you probably don’t want that code running on your box!