Five most important things to do after installing opensuse

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OPENSUSE is one of the most stable linux distributions in the world of linux, if you are shifting from non-linux enviorenment such as windows or mac its obvious that you will feel a big difference, normally you'll find lots of tutorials and guids for the post installation instructions of opensuse, but upto now its unable to find a guide or tute with every thing at one place, as there are lots of common issues that beginners wasting their time to find out solutions that is spreaded all around the web, because of this we have compiled set of instructions to accompolish a succesfull and clean installaiton of opensuse.

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Update the system

The first thing you have to do after installing a distro is updating ito the latest. In this case to do all updating processes and installing processes(package management) we use zypper, its not a big deal to do package management updating and upgrading in linux, but in here at leap 42.1 probably you may get some issues when trying to install updates

1. Disable the repository openSUSE-42.1-0

   You can list all available repos by issuing this command : sudo zypper repos locate the repository openSUSE-42.1-0 by the index number (in most cases its one at the beginning) disable the repository by typing : sudo zypper mr e (index_no goes here) (by doing this you can get rid of an error like this (Empty destination in URI: hd:///?device=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-1USB_DISK_2.0-part1 ")

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2. Update the system by issuing 'zypper update'

   If this command runs normally, you are almost finish with configuring the basics and you can proceed by skipping step 3, but in most cases you'll get an error like this (specially in leap 42.1) ("Error, failed to connect to download.opensuse.org/xx: network is unreachable") this is beacause zypper is using ipV6 at first as it is enabled in your computer and it is unable to resolve them (may be the router) to overcome this you can disable ipV6 at the boot.

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3. Disabling ipV6 -from grub

   To disable ipV6 at the boot time you need to pass kernel parameters via grub configuration file to do so you need to edit the grub configuration file : sudo vim /etc/default/grub search for the line containning ""GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=" "" and pass ipv6.disable=1, after saving it update the grub by grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg then you are alright enjoy updating after rebooting your system

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Installing multimedia codecs

At the beginning it is unable to play files like .mp3 and DVD's and etc, to come across this you have to install the multimedia codecs by adding and enabling those repositories

4. Add these repositories

   packman repo : zypper addrepo -f http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ packman
   libdvdcss repo : zypper addrepo -f http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ dvd

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5. Install these packages by using 'zypper install'

   # phonon-backend-vlc
   # phonon4qt5-backend-vlc
   # k3b-codecs
   # flash-player
   # ffmpeg
   # libdvdcss2
   

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Well done! you're alright with setting up fundamentals, so go ahead and install other software packages needed for your day to day life and other purposes.
Good luck!