How to Install LibreOffice in openSUSE?

As we know, LibreOffice stable release is available for use. I guess, you still have OpenOffice installed and using it. Why not lets try LibreOffice. It’s quite easy to install, lets go through step by step.

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KDE 4.6.0 is OUT

KDE is delighted to announce its latest set of releases, providing major updates to the KDE Plasma workspaces, KDE Applications and KDE Platform. These releases, versioned 4.6, provide many new features in each of KDE’s three product lines.

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LibreOffice 3.3 is released!

After announcement from Ubuntu that they will include LibreOffice with the up coming Ubuntu release and so on… in the next few days, LibreOffice announced its 1st final stable release for the world. LibreOffice have many new features over OpenOffice.

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Backup openoffice files automatically

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KDE 4.3.1 released

KDE 4.3.1 is released on 1st of September. Upgrade from KDE 4.3.0 is highly recommended because of patches and bug fixes.

September 1st, 2009. A month has passed since the release of KDE 4.3.0, so today the KDE Community announces the immediate availability of KDE 4.3.1, a bugfix, translation and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. KDE 4.3.1 is a monthly update to KDE 4.3. It ships with a desktop workspace and many cross-platform applications such as administration programs, network tools, educational applications, utilities, multimedia software, games, artwork, development tools and more. KDE's award-winning tools and applications are available in more than 50 languages.

openSUSE users can add factory repo to upgrade to KDE4.3.1, other distro users can view this link for more details.

openSUSE 11.1 users can follow this link to upgrade.
For more information read this thread in openSUSE forum.

Enjoy new version of KDE4.

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Install KDE4.3

So here we go...
KDE4.3 was released on Aug 4th 2009, just 3 days ago.
I still did not update my system to KDE4.3, so can't comment on it. But as i used KDE4.3 RC3, it was solid and stable. Hope, KDE4.3 will also be.

If want to use 1 click installer to install in a easy way for openSUSE, click on the link below to follow:

openSUSE 11.1
openSUSE 11.0
openSUSE 10.3

For more details read this page.

For other distros like: Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, kubuntu etc. Read here.

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KDE4.3 is ready for flight

Tomorrow KDE team is going to announce the official release of 4.3 final version.
KDE4.3 is already in news for its complete set of beauty from others desktops.
This is going to be the major release in this 4 series.
Currently i am using KDE4.3 RC3 in openSUSE11.1, and it is rock solid and stable.
But there are fixes after RC3, so i hope the final version will be more stable than the RC3.

I will post the updating links for KDE4.3 here. So keep tuned.
Till than wait and see, what 4.3 is going to bring for us.

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Install KDE 4.3 RC2 in openSUSE11.1

I am using KDE 4.3 RC2 in openSUSE 11.1, and simply its rock solid...
I used one click installer to install it.
Yeh, i know few days remaining for the official final release, but still RC2 is working fine.
One click installer for openSUSE 11.1 from factory repo:
Here

For more versions, read here.

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One click installer for KDE 4.2.4

Hi all.
To use 1-click installer for openSUSE 11.1, click the below link:
openSUSE 11.1

For openSUSE 11.0:
openSUSE 11.0

For openSUSE 10.3:
openSUSE 10.3

For other distros please visit this page.

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Install Adobe reader in Linux

Installing adobe reader is quite easy, personally i prefer to use Okular from KDE.
There are many ways to install adobe reader.
1- If you want to install it from software management, so go to software management in openSUSE, and search for word "acroread" and check it for installation.
In Ubuntu, open System->Administration->Synaptic package manager and type "acroread". and mark it for installation.

2- The 2nd and easiest way which i also follow is download adobe reader from adobe website for your respective OS and just double click on it after installation to install it.
You can keep the backup for next time. So hazel free for next time.

Download size is around 60.4MB for version 9.1.0.
Here is the link.

3- you can install it in terminal like:
Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get acroread

openSUSE:

zypper in acroread

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Additional YaST Package Repositories (openSUSE)

There are a lot of internal and external repos for distros.
But prefer to use internal repos from the distro website. External repos some time make the system slow and most of the time not accessible.

Here are the addtional list of repos which mostly contain important app like:
- VLC
- openoffice.org
- Java
- Packamn
- Nvidia drivers
- ATI drivers
- Madwifi
- Google Linux software repository
- Dell
- Apache
- Compiz and XGL
- Wine
- Mozilla
- Smart
and so on.................

Link:
Click here

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SSH access via GUI

I had some dedicated servers based on Linux. I use mostly terminal to access them by using SSH, we don't have FTP access to the servers to make them secure.
I like to use SSH through terminal. But some time when you are uploading one by one file after 2 and 3 minutes, its a bit painful. Specially this case arise when you are a web developer, and testing your files on live server and uploading it every minute.
So i find a very good software for it. Named 'gFTP', Its from gnome desktop. There are also many ftp software, like filezilla. But it does not have SSH2, to let you use it.
So the better and simple option is to use gFTP.
You can install it from software package management in any distro.

As now i am on Mandriva, you can install it from terminal by typing this:

urpmi in gFTP

You can change the urpmi in for other distros. But the gFTP will be there like for openSUSE:

zypper in gFTP

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