I recently installed opensuse 11.1 from the DVD. I have been using SuSE 9.2 for several years and liked it a lot. I think 11.1 is going to be good also. It is a big jump from 9.2 however. I am still working out a few issues that mostly involve a learning curve on my part.

In 9.2 I used several different browsers, one of which was Galeon. I would like to install Galeon in my current 11.1. I am using the KDE desktop, although I also have Gnome installed.

I am not really comfortable using the CLI (shells) although I can run simple commands. I was wondering if I could use zypper to install Galeon? What would happen if I ran the command "zypper in galeon"? Would it install? Would I screw anything up? Or should I just be content with Firefox and 2 versions of Konqueror?

OK, I tried it. It didn't work. Guess I will never get the hang of this CLI stuff. Too bad, it seems like powerful magic.

You don't need to use the cli to install packages. You can use the YaST2 package manager and search for the package. I wonder if Galeon is obsolete or may have changed its name. I didn't see it.

You can search the packages installed and your repos with the command:
zypper se Galeon
You can also use a partial name if you aren't sure of the spelling
zypper se aleo

Imagine that there was a package named "galeon" available. You could install it using:
sudo zypper install galeon

Thanks, jschiwal. It seems the last update to Galeon was back in '06, so it probably is obsolete. Too bad, it was a nice little browser, Gnome based and I think built on Mozilla. But then Firefox is also pretty slick, especially if you download a few themes to play with. And the new Konqueror is also rather nice. It is easy on the eyes and now has a favorites toolbar. OpenSUSE 11.1 is looking good after a few tweeks. I think I am going to like it. I used 9.2 for several years and it was like a rock, solid and dependable.

I used the YaST tools to install several packages, it worked well. I was mostly curious about zypper. I am kind of a klutz when it comes to computers but I usually manage to blunder my through with a lot of help from forums such as this.

Zypper is a lot like Yum. There are many options I will probably never learn but the most common ones are very useful. The "search" or "se" for short subcommand will search for packages containing a string, whether they are installed or not. It will also include repositories you have added. Running "zypper se <term>" to get a list of packages, and then "sudo zypper install <package>" works pretty slick. Only the install command needs to be run as root, hence the use of "sudo".

Be sure to run the installation sources and enable the Packman repository. This will give you versions of xine and mplayer and amarok that will play proprietary formats like MP3s. The SuSE packages have been built without that support.

Run "visudo" and comment out the line near the bottom that lets %wheel group members use sudo. Simply delete the "# " at the beginning of the line.

Next make sure you are a member of the "wheel" group. That will let you use "sudo". You can do this part in YaST2 or by adding your username to the end of the audio:... line in /etc/group.

While you are at it add yourself to the "audio" group. Sometimes this isn't done.

You probably know all this from using SuSE 9.2, but having been years since installing it, it something that can be easily forgotten.