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Keeping Tumbleweed Updated

When running openSUSE Tumbleweed, always use the dist-upgrade method to install updates. The command for this is sudo zypper dup. DO NOT update Tumbleweed through the YaST GUI or by using sudo zypper up. Tumbleweed uses the dist-upgrade method to move to the next rolling release, so doing the normal update methods will not move you to the next release and can cause problems with orphaned packages.

Media Codecs

You may find that some media files fail to play after installing openSUSE. This is most likely because openSUSE is not able to include codecs such as h.264 due to licensing issues. Fortunately, installing these codecs is pretty easy to do.

To add the Packman repo that contains media codecs, open up YaST from your menu (or launch it using xdg-su -c /sbin/yast2).

  • Click on Software Repositories in YaST
  • In Software Repositories click the Add button
  • Click Community Repositories and click the Next button
  • Check Packman and then click the OK button

After adding the Packman repo, open up Software Management from YaST. In Software Management click the View button and then click Repositories. From the Repositories tab, click on Packman, then click on the link at the top that says Switch system packages to the versions in this repository (Packman Repository).

A prompt will show asking you to replace installed packages with packages from Packman. This is fine to do. The Packman repository is one of the few repositories which replacing packages in this manner should never cause issues. Click Accept to finish installing the new packages from the Packman repo.

If the above fails or you would prefer using the command line for this, do the following commands:

sudo zypper ar -cfp 90 http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ packman
sudo zypper inr