So you’ve downloaded and installed openSUSE 11.0. Are you now wondering what you may have to do post installation, here’s a quick run down:

Setup suggested repositories
Setup your Video Card (if you have more configurations to do, ie Nvidia / ATI)
Get Compiz running (if you wish)
Codec Support (Restricted Formats, multimedia)
Install various applications

So here we go:

Setting up repositories:

For my machine I added the following repositories for my final build:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/11.0 (VLC Media, restricted formats)
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.0/ (KDE 4 Stable) Note: if this was not my workbox, I would actually do Unstable to get KDE 4.1
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_11.0/ (Wine, for windows emulation)
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Backports/openSUSE_11.0/ (KDE Backports, updates to Amarok and other KDE Applications)
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XGL/openSUSE_11.0/ (Compiz Fusion, staying up to date and hip with the most recent Compiz builds, I highly recommend since it’s constantly developed on)
http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.0/ (Packman, xinelibs / codecs and so much more)
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.0/ (Firefox, recent builds of Firefox)
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Community/openSUSE_11.0/ (Gnome Community, I use for Pidgin and GIMP)
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.0/ (OpenOffice is an important application for me since I use it daily for word processing or spreadsheets, keeping it up to date allows for the best compatabilities with people using restricted formats like xls/doc)
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education:/desktop/openSUSE_11.0/ (Education – For Bluefish)
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_11.0/ (KDE Stable repository, not sure why because not many changes should happen to the 3.5.9 family)

Here is a quick screenshot of my repositories:

(Note: I am running KDE, if you are running GNOME, I highly recommend the following repo:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.0/)

(Note: If you are running an NVIDIA card, setup the following repository:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.0/)
(Note: If you are running an ATI card, setup the following repository:

http://www2.ati.com/suse/11.0/)

(Note: If you are running a wireless card that has a requirement for MadWifi, setup the following repository:

http://madwifi.org/suse/11.0/)

Setup your Video Card (if you have more configurations to do, ie Nvidia / ATI)
Install the packages that are associated with your NVIDIA / ATI card.

For me I downloaded the NVIDIA Driver from nvidia.com and installing running:
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.08-pkg1.run
Since I had some issues with the 173.14 driver.

Get Compiz running (if you wish)
With openSUSE 11.0 it works out of the box, but I recommend installing some of the other packages that don’t come installed by default also updating to the Compiz Fusions newest build service.

Here are the compiz packages I have installed:
rpm -qa | grep compiz
compiz-fusion-plugins-main-0.7.6-2.6
compiz-fusion-plugins-extra-0.7.6-1.3
compizconfig-settings-manager-0.7.6-1.6
compiz-kde-0.7.6-2.5
compiz-emerald-0.7.6-1.6
compiz-manager-0.0.1_git080201-24.1
compiz-emerald-themes-0.6.0-16.1
compiz-0.7.6-2.5
libcompizconfig-0.7.6-1.6
python-compizconfig-0.7.6-1.6

sudo zypper up -t package -r “Compiz Fusion”
(Note: I named my Compiz Fusion repository Compiz Fusion, the -r switch is for your Repo Alias that you have included into your Repository Configuraiton)

(Note: Torano had a great observation that the Simple CompizConfig Settings Manager (Desktop Effects applet) moved from “Control Center” to “More Applications” after upgrading to the BuildService)

Codec Support (Restricted Formats, multimedia)
Install the restricted formats you want to (i personally do not install libdvdcss since I have no need to play dvd’s on my work machine, and it is prohibited in the US (for now)). This should allow you to play avi / mpg / mp3 / dvd’s and many other formats

You can install by running: (this requires packman and vlc repositories)
sudo zypper in libdvdcss libxine1 w32codec-all k3b-codecs

Note: if this is a home machine for multimedia I recommend also installing vlc by running:
sudo zypper in vlc

Install various applications
I typically install wine, opera, pidgin and bluefish from the repos.
I also install vmware for my daily work needs.

You can install running:
sudo zypper in wine opera pidgin bluefish
sudo rpm -ivh sudo rpm -ivh VMware-workstation-6.0.4-93057.i386.rpm
I then configured vmware by running:
sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
(Note: you have to install kernel-source, gcc, gcc++ and make)
You can install running:
sudo zypper in make kernel-source gcc gcc-c++
You can check my wiki located here for more indept installation procedures

Here is a screenshot of my machine running KDE 3.5.9, openSUSE 11.0 and Compiz Fusion:

Bonus: I also installed the Oxygen packages for yast, to beautify my KDE 3.5.9 yast, you can do the same by running:
sudo zypper in yast2-theme-openSUSE-Oxygen

Please if you believe there is more to be done after installing openSUSE 11.0 let me know so I can update this, and it can be helpful to a bigger vast of people.

Additions:
I had to install Microsoft Fonts since some of the fonts my job requires on certain documents is Times New Roman. I have blogged this, but will include the installation here:

First lets install cabextract:
sudo zypper in cabextract

Run the following commands:
wget http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/scripts/fetchmsttfonts.sh
chmod a+x fetchmsttfonts.sh
sudo sh fetchmsttfonts.sh

The original blog post can be found here

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