openSUSE Leap 42.2 post installation guide

6) Enable Packman Repos

openSUSE ships with official repositories & components which will not included some important packages due to licensing and patent issues.

Packman is community repository offers various additional packages for openSUSE, especially but not limited to multimedia related applications and libraries.

It’s the largest external repository of openSUSE packages. Packman is comprised of the following four repositories.

• Essentials: provides codecs for audio and video player applications
• Multimedia: contains many more multimedia related applications
• Extra: additional non multimedia related applications, mostly network related
• Games: games packages

[Enable Packman repository]
$ sudo zypper addrepo http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/ Packman-Repository
or
$ sudo zypper ar http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/ Packman-Repository

Finally refresh the repository.

$ sudo zypper ref

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7) Install Media Codecs

Entertainment is one of the important things for everybody now a days, due to some reason multimedia codecs are not included in openSUSE Leap Official repository but you can install by adding Packman repository, check Step-2.

[Install Media Codecs]
$ sudo zypper install k3b-codecs ffmpeg lame gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-ugly-orig-addon gstreamer-plugins-libav

8) Install Flash player

By default Flash player wont comes with openSUSE Leap 42.2 repository. Flash plugin mandatory to run/view flash media in web browser. You can download/install flash player by visiting adobe.com. Choose your architecture and download then install it.

Alternatively we can easily install adobe flash player from packman repository package.

$ sudo zypper in flash-player

9) Install bunch of software’s

openSUSE Leap offers wide range of software’s, we can install all required Application/software based on our requirements to run day to day operation without trouble.

Additionally we can install some other Apps which is not available in openSUSE Leap 42.2 & Packman repository, either Apps official repo or rpm package.

• Install Web Browsers
• Install Audio Players
• Install Video Players
• Install Image Editor
• Install Install Virtualbox
• Install pidgin IM Chat Client

• Install Bittorrent Client
• Install Office Suite
• Install FTP Client
• Install ClamAV
• Install LMD
• Install Bleachbit
• Install Download Manager

• Install Email Client
• Install Emulator
• Install firewall
• Install Twitter Client
• Install Ebook Reader
• Install Install Spotify
• Install Install Youtube-DL

• Install Skype
• Install Telegram
• Install Dropbox
• Install owncloud
• Install Web Server
• Install LAMP
• Install LEMP

10) Install other Desktop Environments

Are getting bored with your current desktop environment and want to play with new desktop environment ? don’t worry, openSUSE Leap 42.2 offers wide range of desktop environments, so choose the desired one and install it.

[Install Gnome Desktop]
$ sudo zypper install -t patterns-openSUSE-gnome

[Install MATE Desktop]
$ sudo zypper install -t patterns-openSUSE-mate

[Install Cinnamon Desktop]
$ sudo zypper install -t patterns-openSUSE-cinnamon

[Install KDE Desktop]
$ sudo zypper install -t patterns-openSUSE-kde

[Install XFCE desktop]
$ sudo zypper install patterns-openSUSE-xfce

[Install LXDE desktop]
$ sudo zypper install patterns-openSUSE-lxde

[Install Enlightenment desktop]
$ sudo zypper install patterns-openSUSE-enlightenment

11) Set Up Your Online Accounts

You can integrate all the online accounts into Fedora system to access easier such as (Facebook, twitter, flickr, google & yahoo). You can do by navigating Show Applications (Menu) –> Settings–> Online Accounts.

12) Install YaST

If you are not familiar in command line, i will advise you to install YaST which will help you to install, remove, update packages through Yum Extender GUI.

$ sudo zypper in yast2

13) Install Oracle JAVA & OpenJDK

JAVA is necessary to run certain programs in Linux and windows machine. We can install it using below article link.

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Also enable Java plugin support because Many web pages use Java applets for interactive content such as online games, WebEx (Online meeting), etc.,.

By default all the browsers disabled the plugin due to security issue and still you want to enable to access the trusted web sites.

We can enable it on browser by following below procedures. Make sure you system should have installed OpenJDK before proceeding to enable the JAVA Applet.

$ sudo zypper install java-1_8_0-openjdk java-1_8_0-openjdk-plugin

14) Install archive formats

Daily we will use archives for routine work, so install the archive utility which will work with all kind of archive formats.

$ sudo dnf install p7zip p7zip-plugins unrar

15) Install Bleach Bit (System Cleaner)

Bleach Bit is a free, open-source and easy to use disk space cleaner & privacy manager, not only clearing disk space apart from that it will Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn’t know was there. Designed to work with Linux and Windows systems also clean a thousand applications such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, and more.

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