Kile, the KDE LaTeX editor, does not pull texlive as dependency in openSUSE 11.2. To have a fully working installation, simply install the texlive-latex package. You can do that very quickly typing the following command in a root terminal: zypper in texlive-latex and answering “yes” to proceed.
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OpenFOAM 1.6.x on openSUSE 11.2 and VTK reader
Installing OpenFOAMĀ® on openSUSE 11.2 is very easy, and can be done using, at least in part, the system tools, to take advantage of the new compiler. The steps of the procedure are the following: Use YaST to install the C/C++ development pattern in YaST cmake libqt4-devel (required to build paraview) Create a directory called OpenFOAM in your home directory mkdir ~/OpenFOAM Enter the OpenFOAM directory cd ~/OpenFOAM Download the OpenFOAM sources from the GIT repository git clone git://repo.or.cz/OpenFOAM-1.6.x.git Download the third party packages from the OpenCFD website Extract the third party packages corresponding to your architecture in the ~/OpenFOAM directory Rename the ThirdParty-1.6 into ThirdParty-1.6.x Remove the following directories…
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Installing Skype on openSUSE 11.2 – 64 bit
Skype is provided pre-packaged for openSUSE for 32 bit systems. However the RPM can be used without difficulty also on 64 bit systems, since openSUSE transparently manages bi-architecture packages. Unfortunately the 32 bit RPM does not install all the dependencies it needs to work correctly, and you have to fix them by hand as follows: Install the skype rpm by typing in a root terminal: rpm -Uvh skype-2.1.0.47-suse.i586.rpm Open YaST software installer Search and select the following packages xorg-x11-libXv-32bit libqt4-32bit libqt4-x11-32bit Accept the additional dependencies proposed by the installer and proceed with the installation At this point, you should be able to run skype without any difficulty. Enjoy
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Installing dropbox on openSUSE 11.2 with KDE
This is the first of a series of posts to help openSUSE users that started to use KDE 4, or are new to Linux. Why KDE? Well, I tried it just to see how it is, I went back to GNOME, and I was missing KDE already after a few hours, and only after two weeks of using it. KDE 4 is not finished yet: some part of the migration process from KDE 3 to KDE 4 is still going on, for example in the PIM (Personal Information Management) department, but the environment is fresh, clean, extremely fast and responsive even with desktop effects enabled. In other words, I think…
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openSUSE 11.2 is out
The lastest version of openSUSE has just been released today. The list of updated packages can be found on DistroWatch. The release candidates of this release were extremely promising, and hopefully will be able to make me forget the bad experience had with openSUSE 11.1. I’ll try it during the next weekend, so, stay tuned In the meanwhile, you can get it yourself from the openSUSE software portal. Note: Users with nVidia cards can find the packaged drivers using this repository ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.2/ Enjoy š