When you are working with the source of a new package on openSUSE and aren’t familiar with all of its dependencies, it gets quite annoying running the normal Linux autconf commands–./autogen.sh, install missing dependency, rinse, wash, and repeat–until you finally have everything you need installed.
zypper makes this easy for us with the following command:
$ sudo zypper si -d <package>
You replace <package> with whatever package’s build dependencies you need.
I’ve been having a lot of stability issues with openSUSE 11.0 lately and the majority of them boiled down to audio.
Here is a list of a few:
1. VLC required root to have audio, wtf?
2. Sound would crash after listening to any audio for an extended period of time (music, video, flash).
3. If my audio crashed, Firefox could not start up until I did rcalsasound restart
4. Some videos were slow/choppy.
So, you are probably asking, how did I fix all these issues?
zypper rm alsa-plugins-pulse
zypper addlock alsa-plugins-pulse
This removes the alsa plugin for pulse and locks it so it will never install again. Without the alsa plugin installed, the apps go back to using alsa directly. This has fixed every issue I’ve had with openSUSE 11.0 so far.
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