May 2024 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Preferred way to install Skype on Tumbleweed?
by -pj 17 May '24

17 May '24

Hi, I am wondering if there is a preferred way to install Skype on openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma V6. I can see that there is a Skype Flatpak available in Discover but it errors right towards the end of installation indication. After asking for root password 3 times during the installation process. The error message is -> Aborted due to failure (Flatpak system operation Deploy not allowed for user. Is there a procedure required before Flatpaks can be used with openSUSE Tumbleweed? Is this a KDE related bug? Suse Paste of error screen is -> https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/e61f6369fade One can enable Snaps I guess -> https://snapcraft.io/install/skype/opensuse <- Do you recommend this or not? This is from the openSUSE Build Service and can you recommend this? https://software.opensuse.org/download/package?package=skype&project=home%3… If I use a binary package is that a better option? Maybe using Kopete or Pidgin would essentially be better. I would have to read up on them some. -Thanks

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How to Disable KDE User Halt and Reboot Buttons?
by Lew Wolfgang 11 May '24

11 May '24

Hi Folks, I've searched a bit but haven't found a satisfying answer to my issue. The problem occurs when a non-root user connects to a server using xrdp. This user then has full authorization to halt/reboot the server using the KDE halt or reboot buttons, not exactly an ideal situation. So how can I disable remote xrdp-connected users from rebooting or halting the server? This would also stop users from rebooting/halting the server when directly sitting at the console, which may not exist anyway. Regards, Lew

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Missing window frames on XFCE after update
by Robert Schweikert 10 May '24

10 May '24

Hi, I had to shutdown my machine due to impending power outage. Clever me I figured I'd update before shutdown to pick up whatever was new. Well, whatever is new since my last update on openSUSE Leap 15.5 messed up my XFCE settings. When I start a new application there are no window frames and everything starts in the upper left hand corner. Alt-Tab is not working to switch between apps Since there are no window frames I cannot move windows around. And there is only 1 workspace, albeit the workspace settings dialog shows that there should be 4, which is what I had setup prior to system shutdown. Any ideas? Thanks, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Distinguished Engineer LINUX rjschwei(a)suse.com IRC: robjo

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Local Repository Copies?
by Lew Wolfgang 10 May '24

10 May '24

Hi Folks, Is there a way to maintain local copies of the openSUSE repositories? Maintenance includes keeping the local repos up-to-date by downloading only the deltas between the remote and local repos. I know how to do this using the Red Hat "reposync" program, a part of the yum/dnf package, but it just doesn't feel right having to depend on Red Hat for what would appear to be core functionality. Note: I can't use rsync due to policy constraints. But web ports 80 and 443 are okay. I know, go figure... Any thoughts? Regards, Lew

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TW - note: gcc 14 break Nvidia driver build - still working on patch for 390/470
by David C. Rankin 10 May '24

10 May '24

TW users, Just a note, gcc 14 will break the nvidia driver module build. The discussion and initial workaround/patch is discussed in https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-modules-build-failure-with-upc… I've not got a patch for the 470 or 390 drivers worked out yet -- if you do, post a link, but I think we can port the fixes in the above discussion to those versions as well. The CFLAGS default change also impacts the build. If I work out a patch or get one from the Arch list, I'll drop a link here. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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zypper 'last refresh' output
by Pit Suetterlin 09 May '24

09 May '24

Hi list, since some recent update, any zypper command is always spamming me with a list of how long each repo has not been refreshed. How do I disable that? Didn't find any reference in the manpage :(

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Leap 15.6 Announcement
by J Leslie Turriff 08 May '24

08 May '24

At https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.6 we see that "The release of [Leap 15.6] is official..." but the embedded link points to a page for "openSUSE Leap 15.6 RC"; so is "official" intended to mean "ready for general use," or is Leap 15.6 not quite there yet? Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.5 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.2 tde-config: 1.0

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Early distro update to Leap 15.6
by Darryl Gregorash 04 May '24

04 May '24

The 15.6 release candidate is now fixed, so I am thinking of doing a system upgrade now to resolve two issues with 15.5, one long-standing, the other occurring within the last week. Are there any issues which might make that a bad idea? If not, will another full update be needed when the final version is released on June 12?

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spam
by Dave Howorth 03 May '24

03 May '24

Today I have 5 spam messages, sent yesterday, addressed to users(a)lists.opensuse.org :( They are all sent by User-Agent: HyperKitty on https://lists.opensuse.org/ I've noticed previously that pretty much all the spam I receive from this list are sent in the same way. So if it's too much to ask that the filters for this source be made stricter, can I suggest that we simply ban people from submitting mail to the list in this way? Such traffic makes up less than 1% of the messages to the list, so we won't be losing much.

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VirtualBox and Leap 15.5
by Fred 03 May '24

03 May '24

I finally got around to installing 15.5 on my main machine here (up from 15.0) and with all such changes there are bumps along the way. The latest was trying to get VirtualBox to recognize USB items. I went through all the known and suggested fixes, the obvious ones like permissions and group memberships, etc but absolutely nothing was making a difference, to the point I started thinking "bug". So, I tossed a hail mary <-- American football term - and downloaded the .rpm from Oracle and told it to install and overwrite all. It did and the USB problem disappeared. Bug squished. The VB version on the OS repositories sucks. I have arrived at 15.5 late in the game; everyone else was probably aware of this item but thought I would put it out to the group anyway, just in case someone may have missed it.

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