openSUSE 10.2: List of Recommended Repositories for Yast
YaST is a great tool for dealing with packages, designed perfectly for beginners. You can install packages, remove them, update, and even protect them. SUSE comes with a lot of packages, but maybe you want a package not provided due to licensing issues. There are repositories that provide this type of package, but SUSE needs extra configuration to access them.
Apart from other repositories that are there, and in coming days will come up, here are the ones I think every openSUSE 10.2 users should have, as to always have access to latest patches and updates and good collection of RPMs. The following is using Yast, which btw is working exceptionally well, compared to what was when 10.1 came out.
Start YaST by selecting it from menu. Select Installation Source. Click on Add, enter server name and directory, and you are done. Here is an example:
And here is the list of repositories that I recommend:
As you can see from the following snapshot, the repository list is nicely syncronised with openSUSE Software Updater applet, which resides in your taskbar.Once any updates are availalbe, the applet will notify you.
Tip: If you are, by any circumstaances, are having some kind of problem with Yast package manager, try deselecting the “Enterprise Software Management” pattern and select the “openSUSE Software Management” software pattern during or after install. (The former pattern contains software that was partly responsible for many of the problems in 10.1)
A complete list of Yast repositories can be always found @opensuse.org website:
as usual a wonderful and clear post !
Comment by kOoLiNuS — December 11, 2006 @ 5:58 pm
Thanks for the post. I’m new to openSUSE, attracted by the shininess of it all, and need this kind of info!
Comment by dmt195 — December 11, 2006 @ 6:37 pm
[...] It took me around 40 minutes to be up and running openSUSE 10.2. All the hardware drivers were installed automatically. Now, compare that to WindowsXP installation. Once all this was done it I started setting up the desktop to my preferences - the reorganisation of the desktop themes and components, such as fonts, theme, icons, layout, etc. Also added the lsit of recommended repositories, which I stated in my previous post (got tonnes of hits on that post) and updated the system to latest available and enabled all multimedia stuff. Hooked my workstation to the company’s network, set-up the printers on network and authentications. This all took me another 40-60 minutes, as I wasn’t in hurry and wanted to explore the new stuff in GNOME DE. [...]
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openSUSE 10.2 is the best simple to use distro that I have ever used. Don’t get me wrong I
like other linux distro like Fedora, OpenBSD, Ubuntu, Xandros, Mandriva and Slackware, but this
new version of openSUSE is excellent. One of the area I thought was great was the look and
feel of the KDE desktop and the flawless wireless connection set up. This was my biggest
headache tring to get my laptop wireless card to work…OpenSuse 10.2 found my wireless card and
I was able to get the madwifi drivers from the Suse.org website. The documentation OpenSuse
is free and provides outstanding easy to understand instructions. This is a excellent source for administrators, newbies, and anyone who wants to move from Windows to Linux. I personally want
to thank Novell and everone who made this a sucessful, easy to use, friendly linux disto yet..
Please keep up the good work…
Merry Christmas
Comment by computertimes — December 15, 2006 @ 9:38 pm
[...] Also refer to my other post titled “Recommended list of repositories for openSUSE 10.2″ [...]
Pingback by openSUSE 10.2: The Most Complete List of Repositories « Linux and Open Source Blog — December 20, 2006 @ 11:32 am
might mention the “%3a” on these URL’s are actually a “:”. Maybe I’m not bright, but it took me a few minutes to finger that one out.
Comment by Zibrah3ed — January 5, 2007 @ 7:21 am
Excellent work, dude! (y) :respect: Your “ultimate” list as well.
Comment by Dreams — January 9, 2007 @ 12:43 am
I’m new to OpenSUSE and Yast, and found this kind of confusing. First, I tried adding several of the repositories mentioned, but Yast gives me error messages. Second, the tip at the end — there’s no explanation of what program that is in the screen grab, or how to get there.
Any time I try and update the Yast sources, I get a “Synchronizing with ZENsources dialogue that lasts for about an hour. Isn’t there a better way?
Comment by dan — January 10, 2007 @ 7:54 pm
Hey, i was dubious about actually using OpenSuSE this time around. YaST and more specifically zmd have been real hogs in the past, i’m sure that regular susers will know the exact bug i’m talking about. However, i got a disk with one of my magazines so i though i’d give it a whirl, and i have to say .. .. Its excellent, im primarily a Gentoo man as i like to tweak, however for a clean shiny easy to use distro that just works, this is the best around .. . Ubuntu be damed :D. this will be going on my laptop.
Comment by skrye — February 17, 2007 @ 4:51 pm
i need help to install Apache server on linux Suse10.2
pleas steps
Comment by basma — February 20, 2007 @ 1:38 am
Suse 10.2 has been quite good for me. A minor caveat though is that some of the utilities and other programs offered in the YAST catalogs have missing dependencies. For instance fdmf, a utility of identifying multiple copies of the same music mp3’s, will report a missing dependency, plotutils (a gnu utility), which I have been unable to find in any repository. I have found sources on gnu’s website, downloaded it, built and installed it but outside of YAST. So what’s the problem here? Perhaps just as importantly I’ve not found any commentaries on how to build a single application and install it through YAST or how to make such a program acceptable for YAST to install.
Comment by Jjefferies — March 27, 2007 @ 2:55 am
I’m happy that SuSE 10.2 offered Zypper besides Zenworks. Just after finishing the installation I directly got rid of ZenWorks and Beagle, since they are both resource and memory hungry. After deletion of both packages SuSE 10.2 runs pretty fast even on an old Pentium III with only 384 Mb of memory. I’ve also installed a copy of smart from Pascal Bleser, because this version of smart offers some extras. Now, I’ve got a nice system and even thanks to http://software.opensuse.org repositories I’ve manager to upgrade my OpenOffice.org to its latest stable release. I only miss the latest version of PostgreSQL database. SuSE offers PostgreSQL 8.1.9, but PostgreSQL 8.2.4 is the latest stable version. I prefer PostgreSQL above MySQL, because as a normal user I’m able to control the location of the datafiles by myself.
Comment by Tom van der Vlugt — July 1, 2007 @ 10:05 pm
Thank you so much for taking the time out to publish your list of recommended sources. I might be asking too much but could you please list the sources as text so that we could just copy and paste them. I am going to be making a file with all these sources so if you would like me to then I can just give the file to you so that you can easily add it to your blog. Thanks again.
Comment by Dmitriy Zasyatkin — July 21, 2007 @ 6:57 pm
Maybe I’m missing something here but I was under the impression that on Linux you needed a handful of repositories and then you could install virtually anything…
I can’t even find apache or gcc!
Comment by K123 — July 27, 2007 @ 9:21 am
[...] Also refer to my other post titled “Recommended list of repositories for openSUSE 10.2″ [...]
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