The Perfect Desktop - OpenSUSE 11.1 (GNOME) - Page 4

7 Installing Additional Software

Now that we have added additional repositories, a lot more packages are available in our package manager for installation, especially a big deal of our needed packages. To install them, go to Computer > Install Software:

Type in the root password:

The Software Manager window comes up:

Make sure that you select the Available button (it should have a colour slightly different compared to the Upgrades and Installed buttons). You can use the search field to search for specific packages. If you've found a package that you'd like to install, mark it and click on the Install button:

A new column will be added on the right side which lists the selected packages (and their dependencies which will be installed automatically):

Select the following packages for installation (* is a wildcard; e.g. xmms* means all packages that start with xmms):

• gimp
• picasa
• opera
• filezilla
• MozillaThunderbird
• MozillaThunderbird-translations
• Vuze
• MPlayer
• mplayerplug-in
• xmms*
• dvdrip
• vlc
• vlc-mozillaplugin
• acroread
• gnucash
• scribus
• scribus-templates
• amarok
• amarok-yauap
• audacity
• rhythmbox
• gtkpod
• sound-juicer
• xine-ui
• libxine1-codecs
• k3b
• w32codec-all
• libdvdcss
• bluefish
• kompozer
• kdewebdev4
• free-ttf-fonts
• gstreamer-0_10*
• java-1_6_0-sun
• java-1_6_0-sun-plugin
• sane-backends
• GeoIP (needed by aMule)
• libGeoIP1 (needed by aMule)
• lsb (needed by Helix Player)
• libqt4-devel (needed by Skype)
• virtualbox-ose

Click on the Apply button afterwards:

The packages are now being downloaded from the repositories and installed. This can take a few minutes, so please be patient:

7.1 Additional Codecs

Now open Firefox and go to http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia. You should find a link to http://opensuse-community.org/codecs-gnome.ymp on that page. Click on it and select Open with YaST Meta Package Handler (default) in the Firefox download dialogue:

This is a meta package that installs some additional codecs - just follow the YaST installation wizard:

7.2 Finish The VirtualBox Installation

To finish the VirtualBox installation (we've already installed the virtualbox-ose package), we need to add our desktop user (falko in my case) to the vboxusers group. To do this, open a terminal and become root:

su

Run the following command...

usermod -G vboxusers falko

... and log out of your desktop and back in for the changes to take effect.

8 Inventory (II)

Now let's check again what we have so far by browsing the menus again.

Our inventory should now look like this:

Graphics:
[x] Gimp
[x] F-Spot
[x] Picasa

Internet:
[x] Firefox
[x] Opera
[x] Flash Player
[x] Filezilla
[x] Thunderbird
[x] Evolution
[ ] aMule
[x] Azureus/Vuze
[x] Monsoon
[x] Pidgin
[ ] Skype
[ ] Google Earth
[x] Xchat IRC

Office:
[x] OpenOffice Writer
[x] OpenOffice Calc
[x] Adobe Reader
[x] GnuCash
[x] Scribus

Sound & Video:
[x] Amarok
[x] Audacity
[x] Banshee
[x] MPlayer
[x] Rhythmbox Music Player
[x] gtkPod
[x] XMMS
[x] dvd::rip
[x] Sound Juicer CD Extractor
[x] VLC Media Player
[ ] Helix Player
[x] Totem
[x] Xine
[x] Brasero
[x] K3B
[x] Multimedia-Codecs

Programming:
[x] Bluefish
[x] Kompozer
[x] Quanta Plus

Other:
[x] VirtualBox
[ ] TrueType Fonts
[x] Java
[x] Read/Write Support for NTFS Partitions