Repositories/Education
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openSUSE Education Repositories
The openSUSE-Education Team creates an third-party repository available for openSUSE. It contains many packages that aren't in the openSUSE version; either because the distribution contains an older version, or simply because it was never packaged for the distribution release.
This is the repository contains software for educational usage. You can find an overview of available packages including a short description in the openSUSE-Wiki.
Adding the openSUSE-Education Repository
For adding the openSUSE-Education repository, see Repositories.
Updates
For version 1.0 of openSUSE-Education, there are no official updates planned. But all packages are build in the openSUSE Build Service, so you can update a single set of packages from the Buildservice repository.
For the upcomming version 2.0 the openSUSE-Education community plans to provide a normal update channel like openSUSE does already.
Mirrors
The openSUSE-Education Repository currently has no mirrors. But it's planned to have some in the near future.
GPG Key
To import the openSUSE-Education Team GPG key, enter the following command:
Short project information
Goals
The main goals of the project are listed in the openSUSE Wiki. Currently the project has three major milestones:
- collect available education applications (version 1.0)
- provide tools for homeusers to prepare their PCs for children (including webfilter, kioskmodes) (version 2.0)
- support schools by creating applications for them (server based like LTSP) (version 3.0)
Homepage
The openSUSE-Education repository homepage is located at: http://www.opensuse-education.org/ Over here you can find a very deep search of the openSUSE-Education repository, a Package Database and a Newsticker, as well.
Wiki
The project uses the official openSUSE Wiki] for documentation. You can start with the most up to date english pages and switch to your preferred language using the pulldown menu on the right top of the page ("other languages").
Bugtracker
The openSUSE-Education Team has it's own Bugtracker to keep an overview about packaging or repository failures at http://bugs.opensuse-education.org/ . Everybody can enter a new bug entry if he finds a bug in a package provided by the openSUSE-Education Team.
Mailinglist
Two Mailinglists are available:
- opensuse-edu@opensuse.org => an english mailinglist
- opensuse-edu-de@opensuse.org => a german mailinglist
both have currently not so high traffic - mostly they're used for announcements of the team. But if you have any questions, feel free to ask them here.
IRC Channel
You can find some team members on #opensuse-edu at freenode.net. If you like, create an account on http://www.opensuse-education.org/ and join the IRC chat using the Webclient (you must be logged in to be able to use it).