On 19 December 2013 13:36, Bob <reber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I hope that this mailing list is appropriate for my question. If not,
> I apologize for the bother.
>
No need to apologise, this is indeed the correct place to ask your question ;-)

> I have successfully installed openSUSE 12.3 on my Samsung Series 3 ARM
> Chromebook. However, I cannot find the many applications that one
> would expect in an openSUSE release, for example mozilla firefox, or
> libreoffice. I have explored the urls around
>
>     http://download.opensuse.org/ports/armv7hl/distribution/12.3/
>
> and have "googled" extensively, but could not find complete
> applications of the type I am seeking. Is it expected that one must
> locate source code for these applications and build them for oneself
> or are there repositories already in existence that I simply could not
> find?
>
Unfortunately both browsers (Firefox/Chromium), and LibreOffice are
packages that require a fair amount of massaging to build correctly.
They take a long time and also a lot of resources.

I have a relatively recent build of Chromium including debuginfo if
you want, you can grab it from here[0]

> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bob Bernstein

Regards,

Andy

0 - http://tmp.wafaa.eu/chromium-armv7-rpm.tar.bz2

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