http://www.osnews.com/story/24518/Configuring_OpenSUSE_11_4_Repositories Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 25 May 2013 20:51:30 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?466046 http://www.osnews.com/thread?466046 One of the great things about OpenSUSE is that it's extremely easy to install support for all of the common restricted formats, including encrypted DVDs.

Go to http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats, click on the version (11.4 if a new install) and then select the link for KDE or Gnome.

Simple (albeit not legal in some jurisdictions)! Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (davidiwharper) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?466053 http://www.osnews.com/thread?466053 Most mainstream distributions have made this pretty easy. It's no more difficult to add Medibuntu to an Ubuntu system than it is to add the restricted formats repo to opensuse, for example. Even some of the more diy distros like Archlinux make this easy:
pacman -S libdvdcss gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
Well, for GNOME anyway. I can't comment on KDE as I don't use it. The legality of it may be debateable, but personally, I'll be damned if someone's going to tell me on which devices I'm permitted to play my legally purchased dvds or music. Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (darknexus) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?466058 http://www.osnews.com/thread?466058 One click support seems to confuse things because they're just clicking on stuff but don't really know what it's doing. As of now, to get things working as well as possible, the best thing to do is set up your repositories in YaST. It'll be nice though when opensuse finishes the software center project they're working on. Working with repositories and packages is unnecessarily complex nowadays for users just to install software. Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bsmith1012) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?466074 http://www.osnews.com/thread?466074 Holy long article, Batman! Doesn't anyone have a problem with the fact that in a 2011 OS you need to read a 3 page article just to install some software? Just a thought ... maybe that's why the year of the Linux Desktop is yet to come? Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pandronic) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?466078 http://www.osnews.com/thread?466078 I have to agree, the linuxmint and ubuntu software centers Ive seen are definitely a much simpler way of doing things. Repositories and priorities should be done in the background, but until there's a good software center for opensuse (bazaar project?) you'll have to configure things yourself. Still, there's a reason why OpenSUSE is one of the most popular KDE distros, they offer a great rock solid system if you configure things correctly. Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bsmith1012) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?466079 http://www.osnews.com/thread?466079 he could have encapsulated it all into a few cli commands for you to copy/paste in a terminal, or embedded the one click install link that was given in the first comment of this article. But a lot of linux guides try not to hide the complexity as much as possible and try to get people to understand what they are doing instead of blindly clicking links.Edited 2011-03-14 20:41 UTC Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Praxis) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?466088 http://www.osnews.com/thread?466088 Well, to be fair there's a bunch of screenshots in there and things are explained to some depth. On the other hand, I've always found the OpenSUSE package management to be incredibly awkward and counter-intuitive. Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments