On 25/11/15 18:42, Werner Flamme wrote:
Basil Chupin [25.11.2015 08:26]:
On 23/11/15 23:14, ellanios82 wrote:
On 11/23/2015 08:42 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
much use of VLC TW: have today installed vlc from:
packman essentials
<http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packmansuse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/Essentials/>
.........
WBR
Thank you for this.
But, tell me, how did you arrive at having to install the above for Tumbleweed? Was it intuition or did Patrick appear to you in a vision and whispered, "http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packmansuse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/Essentials..., http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packmansuse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/Essentials..., ......."? :-D .
'Nuff said :-) . The information should be shown in YaST in the Community list of repos. One could use common sense, if one had...
If I look at a repo URL like <http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/13.2>, my mind tells my fingers to leave the last part of the URL away and try the first part, until .../suse/ that is. I put the remaining URL in the appropriate place of my browser and look at the display of the results. So I discover the proper URL.
BTW, this works with other repos as well :)
That's at least the way I proceed before doing a dist-upgrade: check all URLs whether they are available for my new version or not. If they are, I change the URL, if not, I disable the repo.
If I search for certain software, I always try <http://software.opensuse.org> first. When the software is available via OBS, I often use the one-click-installation, because the repo stays in my list. In case of VLC, I usually have a look at <http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/> first. I once hat problems with the packman version of VLC, so I rather stay with the "official" repos.
Just my 2¢ Werner
Werner, how many years have you been using openSUSE, or some other Linux distro? Are you someone who has been using Windows or Apple OS and decided to switch to Linux and you - fortunately or otherwise - decided to try Tumbleweed which is (or is it?) an openSUSE distro? Indulge me and let's say that you are a Windows user who wants to try Tumbleweed. You download the DVD iso and install it. Fine. But you are used to viewing movies on DVD discs and so you try to do so. What happens? Zilch. Nothing. Zero. Nada. What to do? On the other hand, you decide -- as a Windows user -- to try Linux and install Ubuntu and want to play a movie on a DVD. What happens? BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.9 & kernel 4.3.0-17 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org