openSUSE 13.1:
Frustrations. Trying to install Oracle VM Virtualbox. Found RPM and
install seemed to go OK. However trying to start existing VMs report
that Kernel modules may need to be recompiled. Command gived errors
out reporting “Make” not installed. Once again trying to
install “make” using YAST shows a rediculous amount of
dependencies needing to be installed. Such as
libre-office-icon-themes libre-office help, samba-client [32 bit no
less], flash-player, java and once again 77MB of KDE wallpapers.
Really? Really? The web one-click install worked and seemed much more
reasonable. Installing software using YAST seems absurd. After all
this it still fails. Googling each problem seems to point to another
fix.
Once again if I had to install this in
openSUSE, I’m sure I could. Went through similar steps to install
many software packages…ten years ago! In Linux Mint I
believe the only thing I had to do after installing was to add a user
to a group.
I don’t want to work this hard in 2013 when I
know I don’t have to! So once again I need to re-evaluate openSUSE as
a fall back distro. Why is this getting such great reviews?