openSUSE 13.1: Tried to install VLC again with “one click” install. Webpage had changed some. Noticed it defaulted to “Yast 1-click install” instead of the previous “apper”. This time it installed OK…but still having codec problems trying to play YouTube videos. Found a “one click” install for codecs. But once again it wanted to install an insane amount of dependencies, from things IMHO having nothing to do with codecs. Judging from my Google research this is an ongoing problem with openSUSE. Solution seems to be to use the VLC site itself instead of the openSUSE site. VLC has a “one click” install, but they still don’t for this version. So will wait again! This is very frustrating especially when you read all the glowing reviews. VLC is a very popular program. Installed Stellarium fine. Celestia install seems to go good but it dosen’t. The only thing the local search finds [after the so called install] is kde3-celestia.ymp…which just seems to reinstall it again with the same results. I guess I shouldn’t be an early adopter for openSUSE. I should wait a week or two for other people to smooth out problems. I can only assume it’s a openSUSE problem. After all it’s one-click and dosen’t require a great amount of thinking. Also some of the other programs install fine. Unless it’s a 64 bit problem?
I try install on real my hardware and a VM [which I assume duplicates the same virtual hardware for everyone]. I used Clonezilla for real hardware and VM Clone for the VM, so I can backout incomplete or weird installs. It’s extra work but I feel necessary while I wrap my head around openSUSE’s way of doing things.