3.5 Adding Software Repositories

Add additional software repositories to your system to install third-party software.

WARNING: Trusting External Software Sources

Before adding external software repositories to your list of repositories, make sure this repository can be trusted. openSUSE is not responsible for any potential problems arising from software installed from third-party software repositories.

To add default product repositories, proceed as follows:

  1. Click Software > Additional Product Repositories to display the list of default external repositories.

  2. In the list of repositories activate the items you are interested in.

  3. Click Finish. It can take some time until YaST has downloaded and parsed the metadata of the repository. Once done you can install software from this repository as described in Section 3.1, Installing Software.

If you want to add a repository of the openSUSE® Build Service, such as a version of GPhoto (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GPhoto/), use the Software Repositories configuration dialog of YaST:

  1. Click Software > Software Repositories to start the YaST repository management.

  2. Click Add and begin adding the data provided by the software vendor. First determine the protocol—in this case it is http. Then click Next.

  3. In the Server and Directory dialog enter download.opensuse.org as the server name and repositories/GPhoto/VERSION/ as the directory on the server. Determine the VERSION string by browsing the repository.

  4. Click Ok. The new software repository is now listed in the Configured Software Repositories as one of the media containing a software from where you can install additional packages.

  5. Click Finish. Now you can install software from this repository as described in Section 3.1, Installing Software.