Add additional software repositories to your system to install third-party software. By default, the product repository such as openSUSE-DVD 11.0 and a matching update repository are configured. Depending on the initially selected product, a separate language add-on repositories with translations, dictionaries, etc. might also be configured.
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 ensure the integrity software repositories can be signed with the GPG Key of the repository maintainer. You can manage these keys in YaST—for more information, see . Whenever you add a new repository, YaST offers to important its key. Verify it as any other GPG key and pay attention that it does not change. If you detect a key change, something could be wrong with the repository and you should better disable it as an installation source until you know the cause of the key change.
To add product repositories either click directly in the pane of the YaST control center, or from within the , proceed as follows:
In the start screen, click from the menu bar and select to display an overview of configured software repositories.
Click to select the media type holding the repository, e.g., with the language add-ons. Then click .
YaST asks to insert the medium.
Confirm with . It takes some moments 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 Mozilla (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/), use the configuration dialog of YaST:
In the start screen, click from the menu bar and select to display an overview of configured software reposit repositories.
Click to select the media type holding the repository, e.g., with the Mozilla projects. Then click .
From the list of repositories activate the wanted items such as .
Confirm with .
The new software repository is now listed in the overview. Clicking again you now can install additional packages from this repository as described in Section 3.1, Installing Software.
In the overview find several configuration options:
By default, after adding a new repository, the repository is and the is active. This means, YaST will pull in updated meta data automatically and is always aware of new versions.
The of a repository is a value between 0 and 99, where 0 is the highest priority. If a package is available in more than one repository the repository with the highest priority wins.
Clicking , you open the GPG public keys management interface. In the subdialog, you can add new keys manually, delete or edit existing keys.
lets you update the repository meta data in various ways.