On 2021-08-26 11:56:40 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
|* J Leslie Turriff
[08-26-21 12:54]: |> On 2021-08-15 15:52:29 Carlos E. R. wrote: |> > |On 15/08/2021 22.18, Carlos E. R. wrote: |> > |> On 15/08/2021 21.58, James Knott wrote: |> > |>> On 2021-08-15 3:46 p.m., Carlos E. R. wrote: |> > |>>> On 15/08/2021 21.18, James Knott wrote: |> > | |> > |... |> > | |> > |>>>> Any ideas? |> > |>>> |> > |>>> packman is enabled, but did you do the packman switch? |> > |>> |> > |>> What's that? |> > |> |> > |> Then you have to do it. As with every release, again and again till |> > |> the end of times. |> > |> |> > |> Google "opensuse packman switch". |> > | |> > |In sort: |> > | |> > |# yast2 sw_single |> > | |> > |Click on "repositories" tab. |> > | |> > |On left panel, select the packman repo. |> > | |> > |Click, just below the top of the right panel, on "Switch system |> > | packages to the versions in this repository (Packman Repository)" |> > | |> > |Then click accept. |> > | |> > | |> > |There is another method using zypper. Something like zypper dup |> > | --from packman, but I'm not familiar with it. |> > | |> > | |> > |You have to do this on every new or upgraded install. Even more, do |> > | it periodically (I just tried, I have 8 packages more to switch to |> > | packman), and every time you have a multimedia problem. |> > | |> > |Till the end of times. Since ever. |> > | |> > |Put this on top of your installation notes or commit to memory. |> |> Just out of curiosity, why do the maintainers persist in providing |> these broken packages in the official repositories, when only the ones |> in Packman work? Wouldn't it save them precious time and resources to |> just leave them out and let people install them directly from Packman |> without having to go through these arcane steps to get codecs to work? | |DRM
I don't understand that reasoning. If DRM prevents the maintainers from providing working codecs in the official repositories, rather than making openSuSE users take extra steps to remove their broken packages, they should just leave them out. Users who want working codecs could then install them from Packman without having to fiddle with YaST or zypper settings. This works for e.g. nVidia drivers; why is it different for codecs? Leslie -- Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64