Where can I get a player that will play .mp3 files for SUSE Linux 10.1?

Question

I got Opensuse Linux in a car boot sale for £1 and when i installed it, it cannot play .mp3 files, it says that it is not supported.

Answer 1

the provided link ( http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7527984757.html ) is perfectly useless because the repositories it refers to do not exist anymore (for version 10.1)

unfortunately openSUSE 10.1 (in fact, any openSUSE 10.x) is / are NOT supported anymore. thus you won't get any feature additions (from third parties site like the one above) nor, more importantly, any updates from openSUSE (Novell) itself; so you will for example be stuck w/ Firefox 1.x or maybe early 2, at best.

unfortunately the 1 £ you spent at the car boot sale is wasted :(



if you have a broadband connection of any kind, try and download one of the openSUSE 11.3 DVD

go to http://software.opensuse.org/113/en

and click on download button.



you will still need to download the NON-OSS CD (from the same page or add the non-oss repository in YaST) to get MP3s to play, but you can do that once 11.3 is installed.

my advice would be to install Gnome or, if you don't mind a simple interface, LXDE.



from this page http://en.opensuse.org/Package_repositories you can add repositories with a single click (once 11.3 is installed).

from this page http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories (the 2nd link above the page) give repositories for "additional stuff" like multimedia players from Packman.



here are a couple links to help you get started (with 11.3):

the general documentation page: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Documentation

openSUSE concepts: http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts

package management http://en.opensuse.org/Package_management

Answer 2

here is a guide for opensuse 10.1, be aware that 10.1 is an older version of suse and may not be supported anymore



http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7527984757.html



mp3 files are a restricted, closed source format - but very common,



the problem you have is that opensuse is open source and totally free, unrestricted software,

the linux open source community have their own formats (flac is one, ogg-vorbis another)



this does not mean you will never play mp3's on your system, all it means is you have to enable the 'extra' repositories - which is stuff that is restricted by certain laws and stuff that is closed source - then all packages written for opensuse will be available,



keep with it, opensuse is a good system once you get it configured

Answer 3

Good for you. Most jump into ubuntu so it's nice to see others trying different distros.



Basically OpenSuse is KDE centric so you're after xine's libraries/codecs. Now I don't use OpenSuse but I believe a command like:



zypper in libxine1-codecs



will do the trick. Amarok should already be there so it'll play once you have them.



http://opensuse-community.org/Installing_Software

Answer 4

If all you're seeking to do is play a single MP3 report then i might additionally circulate with VLC this is loose and additionally performs a solid kind of video codecs. in case you prefer to apply the appliance as a library and participant circulate with itunes... incredibly as much as you.