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By basd on Sep 9, 2010 | In opensuse

OpenSuse keeps moving repositories, even repositories that are in their automatic add "community" repositories in Yast. It's a bit of a fail. On top of that, I noticed that the rest of my repositories were not refreshing when one repository failed because, well, it's not there any more. (In this case, the X11/XGL repository/ Plus, I think lxde was wandering about a bit,) I'm speaking of 11.2, don't know if I'm having a similar problem with my 11.3 installs, will have to check it out.

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This turned out to be educational: I took a more careful look at software.opensuse.org/repositories and discovered it was actually easier to locate and add appropriate repositories by browsing to the one I thought would work. So much for the Wiki and 1-click repository links.

So ... I'm downloading 1.3 gig/286 updated packages. Hmmmm.

BTW ... re dropbox -- add the OpSu "network" repository and Yast will have dropbox and plugins for nautilus and kde.

But ... installing won't seemingly do anything. <alt><F2> will run "dropbox" sure enough, but nothing happens.

The reason is, we have to run "dropbox" from a command line to download and install the proprietary daemon. Once that's done and our account is linked, <alt><F2>dropbox will run dropbox just fine.