Installing Software
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openSUSE has huge repositories (which are added to with a few community repositories), with thousands and thousands of packages; and what's best is that they're all installable at the simple click of a button. Below we're going to go through an example of installing a package, in this case it will be the package libxine1 which is the Packman package that provides MP3/MPEG-4 support. Make sure that you have added the necessary Repositories before proceeding.
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Installing a Package
1. We're going to select the Software Management YaST module. So head over to Software -> Software Management.
2. Now this will start up, and you'll get a very nice package manager.
As you can see, you can enter a search term for a package, and the package results will be displayed on the right. Additional package information (such as Version and Changelog) is displayed on the bottom-right.
3. We now want to search for the package we want to install, and it's named libxine1, so enter that in the search term:
4. Now we're going to select the package for installation. Right-click on the package, and select Install.
The package will be selected to be installed:
5. Now simply hit Accept and the changes will be commited. The package will be automatically downloaded and then installed:
Once it's finished, you're done! MP3s can now be played with Amarok.
Other Methods
There are still other methods available for package management. Some of these might provide quicker use on the command-line, though YaST of course will work very well for all your package managing needs.
With Zypper
Zypper is the default commandline tool on openSUSE. Installing packages with Zypper is very easy. For example, to install libxine1, simply:
zypper in libxine1
If you want to get a little more information (such as download percentage, and the like), you can simply increase the verbosity. So something like:
zypper -v in libxine1
See zypper --help for more on the command usage, and be sure to check out the Zypper page on openSUSE.org.
Using Smart Package Manager
For installing packages with the Smart Package Manager, take a look at Installing_Software/Smart.