So as a new user on Suse im still wondering what applications / programs and other neat things i am to install.
So far i have only installed
What must you always install before you are happy with it? Can you tell us the names and what each application does so others know.
Should be a good thread.
Surely that depends on what you want to do with your computer. If you know what you want, then you can go look for the software to do it.
I would always want a web browser, a mail client, a photo album manager, and a music player. And being a developer, I want to be able to install any package I need. SUSE has always had a good choice and is getting better with more repositories.
I agree with Ken_Yap here. But in my case, I have a heavy bias toward multimedia apps on my PC, mainly because that is where my interests currently exist.
Thats a neat link! I was not aware of all the FTP clients mentioned, and that has me thinking.
Agree with all of that.
My browser of choise (firefox), konqueror (file manager/browser), java (by default, I think), and part of the office apps I like (open office) comes with the basic DVD install.
Plus in my case I add:
The above results in a LOT of various dependencies being installed
as others will say the multimedia codecs, ability to play DVDs.
If you’re in to chess engines, then Stockfish should be mentioned. It’s open source and even stronger than the commercial Rybka engine.
Another strong chess engine packaged for openSUSE is RobboLito.
We are fortunate on openSUSE that one of the Packman packagers has packaged many chess programs for openSUSE.
I helped support the update of an openSUSE chess wiki for a while, but after the wiki format change, I merely made a backup under my handle, and neither myself nor anyone else has got around to moving the chess wiki to the new wiki format. This needs to be done sometime.
I have a whole A4 cheat sheet of applications I always install. I update it every time I find a useful application. Without it, I simply wouldn’t remember what I had installed before.
-If you are going to install a Lot of apps… a huge(r) home partition. What size? Well, that would depend on a lot of things… but > 10 G IMO. Probably a larger root partition as well.
-It’s probably obvious, and goes without saying, but at least one more browser app.
-I like to ‘text out’ man pages by invoking: “man cmd > cmd.txt”, and saving the helps in one folder: mndmnls (manned manuals).
On 04/18/2011 06:36 AM, danperecky wrote:
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> -I like to ‘text out’ man pages by invoking: “man cmd> cmd.txt”, and
> saving the helps in one folder: mndmnls (manned manuals).
just my opinion, but why use the space since they already exist on your
machine?
so, try this trick–in the location bar of Konqueror type and enter
#man
and up will pop the manual for the manual (man man), in nice clear text
(that you can make bigger with Ctrl+, or smaller with Ctrl-) and hot
links to other manuals mentioned in man), and bold fonts…
so, if you wanna check the man on (say) mount just type
#mount
imo you will get a more readable verions of the man, and don’t use up
more drive space…enjoy.
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A Penguin Being Tickled - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GILA0rrR6w
As an additional example for gnome users.
It also works to show man pages directly with yelp (gnome help), for example
yelp man:ps
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On 04/18/2011 01:14 PM, martin_helm wrote:
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> yelp man:ps
>
nice! i had no idea (if i had switched to gnome, i would have had to
have the kde base and knoqueror, just to have that feature! (well, i
also like konqueror as a file manager better than nautilus (but, when i
first moved from gnome to kde i had to have the gnome base and nautilus
included…heh, funny how what you are used to is almost always “the
best”!)
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DenverD wrote:
> On 04/18/2011 01:14 PM, martin_helm wrote:
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>> yelp man:ps
>>
>
> nice! i had no idea (if i had switched to gnome, i would have had to
> have the kde base and knoqueror, just to have that feature! (well, i
> also like konqueror as a file manager better than nautilus (but, when i
> first moved from gnome to kde i had to have the gnome base and nautilus
> included…heh, funny how what you are used to is almost always “the
> best”!)
>
To be honest, I found that by accident. While I was trying gnome on the
notebook. But at the end I found myself still using konqueror for many
things (also for showing man pages) while working in gnome.
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DenverD and martin_helm
I tried the
yelp man:command
trick. Very nice format. Professional presentation. I don’t currently have Konqueror installed (so could not try that tip), though maybe I should.
Using
man cmd > cmd.txt
has just been my way of ‘bookmarking’ certain commands I use a lot, just like internet web pages. They are easy to find for me. Yes, it takes up more space. To get around this, they are on an NTFS drive, so it doesn’t impact the home dir.](http://forums.opensuse.org/members/martin_helm.html)
for the c-li junkies this will leave the manpage on the terminal after exiting:
export LESS='FiX' >>~/.bashrc
reload with
source ~/.bashrc
man <sompage>
scroll a few pages,etc… Press Q. it stays on the screen.
yelp man:<somepage> is pretty clever also.
+1
On 2011-04-18 13:14, martin_helm wrote:
> As an additional example for gnome users.
> It also works to show man pages directly with yelp (gnome help), for example
>
> yelp man:ps
>
>
Warning: that line crashes gnome in 11.2, it gets into a loop wasting
gigabytes of memory.
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(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2011-04-18 13:14, martin_helm wrote:
>> As an additional example for gnome users.
>> It also works to show man pages directly with yelp (gnome help), for
>> example
>>
>> yelp man:ps
>>
>>
>
> Warning: that line crashes gnome in 11.2, it gets into a loop wasting
> gigabytes of memory.
>
So you found that 11.2 has a nasty bug, which gnome version do you run on
11.2 (just curiousity).
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On 2011-04-19 18:04, martin_helm wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
> So you found that 11.2 has a nasty bug, which gnome version do you run on
> 11.2 (just curiousity).
The original one. Gnome-about says 2.28.2. I never update gnome, I have a
very bad track record with gnome updates.
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(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2011-04-19 18:04, martin_helm wrote:
>> Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
>
>> So you found that 11.2 has a nasty bug, which gnome version do you run on
>> 11.2 (just curiousity).
>
> The original one. Gnome-about says 2.28.2. I never update gnome, I have a
> very bad track record with gnome updates.
>
Ok, thanks for the warning.
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