Tag Archives: 11.0

Upgrading pidgin to 2.5.2 (also GIMP and more) on openSUSE 11.0

Thu, Nov 6 2008
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I was reading a thread on the openSUSE forums where someone asked for the newest version of pidgin, but the answers given were quite “blah” to me.
I added posted basiclly this same thing in the thread:
Add the GNOME Community repo:
sudo zypper ar sudo zypper ar Index of /repositories/GNOME:/Community/openSUSE_11.0 GNOME\ Community GNOME\ Community
Update the pidgin package:
sudo zypper in pidgin
(This is install)
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RealPlayer dropped from openSUSE, here’s why

Fri, Oct 31 2008
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On the opensuse factory forums Alberto wondered why RealPlayer was dropped from openSUSE and pointed to this novell bugzilla report
I can’t believe that it’s because of the cost issue (as RealPlayer’s website doesn’t say there’s a cost but you do have to sign a license with them). Here are some of the portions of interest from RealPlayers Licensing FAQ:

2. What are the requirements for distributing [ continue reading... ]

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Installing VMWare Workstation 6.0.4 on openSUSE 11.0

Sat, May 31 2008
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So the time has come. OpenSUSE is now in release canidate cycle, and VMWare has released VMWare Workstation 6.0.4 which will work on openSUSE 11.0 natively (without the need of the vmware-any-any patch for 2.6.25 kernel).
I have created a new wiki just for openSUSE 11.0 and VMWare Workstation 6.0.4.
You can find it here in the wiki
I will be creating a new Wiki and Blog [ continue reading... ]

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