Need help with yast.

[inf]

First of all i am a complete newbie to Linux. I just installed it two days ago. and so far am using it as just an OS to write .docs on.

now i downloaded abode flash as an RPM and it doesn’t work. it opens YAST and then comes up with "could not install because it could not find source."

so i downloaded the source and then it comes up with "could not install because line 1 has a white space"

so i downloaded wine X same thing. so i tried to update same thing. COULD NOT INSTALL


WTF is going on. yesterday it was okay i could get wine working you-tube everything.


any tips

[simusphere]

Did you check the newbie forum? The very first sticky post has a link to installing software in linux and what you are looking for is on the second page of that link.

You can install from source or binary, I recommend just installing the binary package with the yast GUI.

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ok i am a total newbie to this system. But so is everyone at some stage..

I can't see to get linux to update or find and packages. it says white space in line 1.

and then could not find any source.

I really need help to get LMMS installed.

PLEASE HELP ME

[someuser]

YaST/zypper manage software through online sources called repositories. If you are using openSUSE, four (and only four) repos are usually recommended: OSS, non-OSS, updates and Packman. Open a terminal and post the output here of

zypper lr -d

This will list your current repos.

[inf]

I did and it comes back with

/etc/zypp/repos.d/repo-source.repo: Key in line 1 contains whitespace
Please file a bug report about this..

[someuser]

Try this:

su -
zypper clean --all
zypper ref