On 04/05/2021 22.02, Doug McGarrett wrote:

On 5/4/21 8:06 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 04/05/2021 14.02, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Carlos E. R. <> [05-04-21 07:46]:

On 04/05/2021 03.27, Doug McGarrett wrote:

On 5/3/21 8:31 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 04/05/2021 01.24, Doug McGarrett wrote:

On 4/30/21 5:48 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 30/04/2021 08.28, Doug McGarrett wrote:

On 4/29/21 5:57 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

Will install a new TW system on the computer as soon as
possible. I would like to know how to set the install routine
to make /boot and /home partitions so if this happens again I
may have a slightly better chance of recovery. Do I
use GParted to make partitions first, or what? Tried that when I
installed the old system, but it didn't work. Please advise.

Our advice will always be to forget Tumbleweed and use Leap. How
many times have you reinstalled TW?

Twice--once in 2019 once in 2020--that's the one that crashed. I
installed Leap once. It does not have all the apps
available as TW does, and it lasted only a couple of months and crashed

and burned, and I hardly even used it. Put
Mageia on the box. Not as capable as TW, but nearly.

Leap has *everything*, but maybe in a different place than TW.

  possibly, but a real stretch to declare it.  it more than

likely

does not
as some package *only* for Tumbleweed.

And others are available only on Leap :-)

but no one knows what Doug will want to install next nor where he will
obtain the package(s).

Right. He has problems understanding repositories.

You're right. I understand exactly what repositories are and what they're used for.
What I don't understand are these two things:
     1. How to determine what apps are in what repository
     2. How to download an app that I want to use from the repository found in step 1.

You simply DON'T. That's how you break your system time after time.

instead:

step one: Tell YaST where is that repository and the name. Not where is the package, but where is the repo.

step two: Tell YaST you want to install "whatever".

That's all.

If there is a "user manual" for OpenSUSE, I'd like to know and if so, I

want it.

Yes, and I told you more than once:

<https://doc.opensuse.org/>


If you ask for a manual for Tumbleweed, it does not exist and will never exist. You are supposed to be an expert in openSUSE to use Tumbleweed and you are supposed to solve the problems yourself, finding the solutions and telling others.