Actually, all the softwares were in the community repositories like Packman and VideoLAN, KDE:Community, etc. I added them and got all the softwares I needed.
In YAST: Softwares: Software Repositories: Add: Community Repos Thanks & regards ST 2008/12/3 Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tuesday 02 Dec 2008, Sandip Tiwari wrote: > > I recently installed OpenSuSE 11.1 beta 5 on my laptop. I wanted to > > install some softwares like VLC, mplayer, etc. but the default OSS > > and Non-OSS repositories don't have these softwares. Can anyone give > > me some good repository addresses? > > openSUSE 11.1 is still in RC1 stage with a release date of 18/Dec or so. > Give a few days (after release) for the respective repos to sync up > with 11.1 and provide rpm packages. > > Alternately, you can install from the source/binary tar balls if you > cannot wait. > > -- Arun Khan > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

