Comments on: Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: 1-Click Install

By: Paulo Pontes

Paulo Pontes — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:41:01 +0000

Great job, It would be awesome if this concept is extended to every distro. Ease of installation is one of the 2 main gaps in linux (the other are drivers).

By: John

John — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:50:05 +0000

This is really amazing!!! Would be very nice if YMP/one Click Install would became standard… would be really very very nice!!!

Hope all goes well!!!

It’s really horrible that each Linux distro uses it’s own tools in respect to software installation…

By: Clebber

Clebber — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:32:49 +0000

I would also like to fusion convert xp to linux 3.0! Helpp pleazse!!!

By: Benjamin Weber

Benjamin Weber — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:30:53 +0000

This is not the same as GDebi, or AptUrl.

GDebi installs individual packages, it does not allow installing any number of packages located in any repository.

AptUrl will only install packages in the existing repositories.

There is an Ubuntu effort to provide the same functionality called ThirdPartyApt. I have been in contact with the specification authors so we can try to use the same file format.

The YMP file format that One Click Install uses is flexible enough to allow instructions for both Ubuntu and openSUSE in one file.

By: Beineri

Beineri — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:58:50 +0000

> All you have to do is to open a deb file using gdebi and it automatically installs all dependencies.

AFAIK gedbi works only with local packages, and SUSE/openSUSE have done the same for versions already.

> What is the exact difference between between gdebi’s approach and 1-click-install ?

Does gdebi allow to install packages from remote repositories (with option to keep them registered) and allows to refine a packages list before installation?

By: Sagar

Sagar — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:26:49 +0000

How is this different from gdebi (for Debian based distros) ?
All you have to do is to open a deb file using gdebi and it automatically installs all dependencies.
What is the exact difference between between gdebi’s approach and 1-click-install ?

By: Nix

Nix — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:09:14 +0000

I like this so much! This is great feature from openSUSE

By: roajan mark

roajan mark — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:53:53 +0000

can i get the compiz fusion to convert the window xp

By: Benjamin Weber

Benjamin Weber — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:54:27 +0000

It is already used on the packman website http://packman.links2linux.de, various peoples blogs (watch http://planetsuse.org ) and webpin http://packages.opensuse-community.org etc.

By: nemirc

nemirc — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:43:30 +0000

This could be the answer to my prayers. There are a lot of people like me that don’t care about using the command line every time they want to install a piece of software. All I want is an OS that works out of the box without the need of the “technical stuff”

All I wonder is if this will be more widely used to make it easier to install any software even if it’s not listed on the openSUSE pages.