05 November 2014

openSUSE Tumbleweed Part 2

With the release of openSUSE 13.2, the Factory and Tumbleweed repositories have officially merged, and is now different than how it was before. What this means for me is another round of testing for Tumbleweed the proper way (using the test-bed partition on Triela). Now that I've gotten the results for 13.2, I can finally begin testing Tumbleweed again (though I'm starting from a base-installation of 13.1 instead of 13.2)

Unfortunately, the result is worse than 13.2 - VLC dependencies aren't fixable. According to caf4926's multi-media/restricted formats guide for 13.1, h264enc and x264 are to be installed for h264 playback, and in the guide for 13.2, only x264 is installed - h264 being uninstallable because of a missing dependency. In the case for Tumbleweed, both are uninstallable because of missing dependencies, regardless of VLC or Packman repositories.

I first tried Pacman's repository first before remembering about VLC's, but in both cases, VLC said the h264 decoder was missing; while I remembered about VLC for Tumblweed, I completely forgot about it for 13.2. Though I'm sure there won't be any difference, I'll give it a try anyway.

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