Add Software Repositories for openSUSE

In your lovely openSUSE, you can add, delete and manage your Software Repositories through powerful and wonderful YaST.

Kickoff menu -> Computer tab -> YaST -> Software -> Software Repositories

Our SUSE has added some offical Software Repositories, they are stable and safe.But we also can add some own non-offical Software Repositories for our personal needs.

But do pay attention to:

  • Non-offical Software Repositories may contain some unstable software package.
  • Different Software Repositories may not compatible with each other.
  • A non-offical Software Repositories may not be permanently stable and reliable.

Too much Software Repositories will slow down the speed of software package management.

At first, let me tell you a simple way to auto search and add your “Community Repositories”(Which is the most safe and simple way to add Software Repositories):

Kickoff menu -> Computer tab -> YaST -> software -> Software Repositories -> Clikc on "Add" -> select "Community Repositories" and click "Next".

In managing your Software Repositories, your have to keep these three offical Software Repositories:

  • Main Repository(OSS)
  • Main Repository(NON-OSS)
  • Main Update Repository

For Chinese Users, offical Software Repositories may be a little slow. So you can choose your own Chinese mirrow Software Repositories, just like http://mirrow.163.com/openSUSE/ or http://mirrors.sohu.com/opensuse/ and so on.

NOW, I use http://mirrow.163.com/openSUSE/ and SUSE 12.3 as example.

Kickoff menu -> Computer tab -> YaST -> software -> Software Repositories -> Clikc on "Add" -> Select "Specify URL..."

then input following things in the input boxes:

And then, we have finished our work!

REFERENCE:

http://lug.ustc.edu.cn/sites/opensuse-guide/repositories.php (Chinese version)

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