I've tried a clean installation from the 1-CD KDE for 10.3 RC1.
Five packages are broken on the CD (classpath, aspell, aspell-en,
cyrus-sasl, amarok). Somebody else must've run into this, but I just
can't find the bugzilla report.
Told the install routine to ignore those 5 problems, but then
the openSUSE versions of some applications so that I can
install versions that aren't crippled (codecs and torrents). We can't
expect to lure anyone away from other operating systems and distributions
with a broken web browser experience and multimedia experience.
Gregg Nicholas
p.s. I've
I have to agree with Andreas Vetter. Firefox/java/flash should simply
work, without manual intervention, on any gui installation (even
x86_64).
In my opinion, the decision to go with only OSS solutions - even though
they don't work right - is likely to push end-users toward other
During installation from the KDE i386 single CD, I had to click retry
for the repositories, but then it seemed to continue. It seemed to take
hours downloading the Online Repositories. Then it looks like it
repeated the long downloads during the Network step of the
installation (immediately
Thanks for all the helpful suggestions on fixing YAST software
management. Using command-line zypper instead of YAST seems to work
quite well.
The suggestion about modifying the repo files allowed the gui YAST tool
to work again.
(adding these lines to the files in /etc/zypp/repos.d/)
must've missed it.)
Gregg Nicholas
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I'm aware of Most Annoying Bugs (252510) and the workaround posted at
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2007-03/msg00373.html
The workaround was working for me on Alpha2 x86_64. Can't seem to make
it work on Alpha3. Perhaps we need new instructions now that firefox is
64-bit?
