Released Version

From openSUSE

If you know what you want/need, you can go directly to http://software.opensuse.org/. If you are not sure, please read the article below.

Choose the Installation Type

Local Installation

When you choose this installation type, you download CD images that hold the openSUSE installation sources to your local computer and proceed from there. This has several advantages.

• You don't depend on an Internet connection during the installation
• You can share the data on different computers
• You can reuse the data at any time later

But it has its downsides as well.

• You transfer a lot of data that you don't actually need
• You need up to 6 blank CDs
• Due to size limitations of CD images, you get only a subset of all packaged software for openSUSE.

Workflow for the local installation

1. Download ISO images.
2. Burn ISO images to blank CD
3. Boot your system with the first CD
4. Install openSUSE

Internet Installation

If you choose this installation type, you download a small boot medium to start the installation from and the YaST installer does the rest for you. This method also has several advantages.

• You do not download everything, but just the data you need
• You need only one blank CD
• The Internet installation source contains all packaged software for openSUSE

Of course, it also has its downsides.

• You depend on an Internet connection during the installation
• It may be unusably slow depending upon the load of the server and your internet connection speed
• It may not be possible to connect to the Internet if your network card is not recognized

Workflow for the Internet Installation

1. Download the boot CD image from the table below
2. Burn the boot CD image.
3. Boot your computer from the boot CD.
4. Point the YaST installer to the installation repository (by pressing F3 and then F4)
5. Install openSUSE.

Learn more about installing openSUSE from internet

Learn more about installing openSUSE from local network

Learn more about how to install openSUSE

Choose the Architecture

x86 (i386)

This architecture supports the following processors:

• Intel Pentium 1-4, Pentium M, Celeron, 32bit Xeon, Celeron D, Core Solo/Duo
• AMD K6, Duron, Athlon, Athlon XP, Athlon MP, Sempron

x86-64

This architecture supports the following processors:

• AMD Opteron, Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2, Sempron 64, Turion 64, Phenom
• Intel Xeon, Xeon MP, Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, Pentium D, Core 2 Duo
• Processors based on AMD's AMD64 & Intel's EM64T (Intel's implementation of AMD64)
• Info about AMD64/EM64T

PPC

This architecture supports the following processors:

• G5 / G4 / G3
• 604 / 603 / 601
• IBM RS/6000
• IBM pSeries
• IBM iSeries

Learn more about installing openSUSE on PPC

IA64

This architecture supports the following processors:

• Itanium2 (McKinley, Madison, Montecito)

SGI maintains a nightly installable build of openSUSE's Factory Distribution for Itanium machines here.

Choose the Download Protocol

HTTP

You can get the CD/DVD images either with your browser or with a download tool.

• CD images: If you use Linux to download, we recommend that you use the commandline tool wget (or curl). wget is able to continue the download later after an interruption by adding -c to the wget parameters. A reconnection after a temporary disconnection happens automatically, even without -c. For more information about wget read man wget.

• DVD images: wget 1.9.x has a bug which limits the download size to 2 GB, but SuSE 10.0 and upwards ship with wget 1.10, where this has been fixed. If you use an older Linux or Unix to download, we recommend that you use the commandline tool curl, like this: curl -C - -O URL. For more information read man curl.
  • Under Debian 3.1 this didn't work for me and I had to use

    curl -v [url]

    to get a second url, then

    curl [url2] -o openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-i386.iso

  • With the curl 7.15 in Suse 10.1 you can use

    curl -L -C - -O <URL>

    (The -L meaning follow Location: headers.)

If you use Mac OS or Windows, use your favorite download tool meeting the above requirements.

BitTorrent

BitTorrent is an open source peer-to-peer file sharing protocol , designed for sharing large software and media files. Its advantage over plain HTTP is that when multiple downloads of the same file happen concurrently, the downloaders upload to each other, making it possible for the file source to support very large numbers of downloaders with only a modest increase in its load.

BitTorrent clients programs are available for several platforms. You can find links to some BitTorrent clients on the official BitTorrent Web page.

If you use openSUSE/SUSE Linux, we recommend that you use the generic BitTorrent client or the ktorrent client included since SUSE Linux 10.0 or for older versions available from the openSUSE tools section. Once ktorrent is installed, you can click a BitTorrent link in Konqueror to start a download. An alternative light-weight command line client is aria2 (Build Service packages here)

If you use Windows, three popular options are to use Azureus, the light-weight µTorrent or BitTorrent (Official client), the original BitTorrent client. If you have trouble with Azureus then its possible that you don’t have Java JRE installed on your computer. For more information visit The Azureus Homepage. Records show that 7/11 people use Azureus. Once you have downloaded and installed this client, you can start a BitTorrent download by clicking a .torrent download link in your browser.

For the exact download procedure, look at the documentation for the client you use.

Metalink

Metalink is an XML format, used by download managers, that contains the mirror and P2P locations of a file along with checksums. Metalink clients offer download resuming, downloading from multiple sources (both mirrors and P2P) simultaneously, automatic error repairs (only with aria2) and checksum verification, among other features. Hence using metalinks can deliver higher availability/reliability, self healing downloads, and very fast transfer speeds.

DownThemAll!, a Firefox plugin, is probably the easiest way for most people to use Metalinks.

aria2 (Build Service packages here) is the recommended Unix command line client, while wxDownload Fast (all platforms) has a GUI (packages here). On Windows, there areFree Download Manager, GetRight, and Orbit Downloader. For MacOS, there is also Speed Download. There are other clients available for Mac OS, Windows, and Unix.

The metalinks are served by the openSUSE download redirector. See http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/iso/dvd/ for example. You can find metalinks for all ISO images below the address http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/ .

See Metalink for usage and more information.

Downloads

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openSUSE 10.3 Installation Media
Architecture	Protocol	CDs1		DVD2
i386	HTTP	KDE	GNOME
	Torrent	KDE	GNOME
	Metalink	KDE	GNOME
x86_64	HTTP	KDE	GNOME
	Torrent	KDE	GNOME
	Metalink	KDE	GNOME
ppc	HTTP
	Torrent
	Metalink
Checksums		CD MD5SUMS		DVD MD5SUMS

openSUSE 10.3 Add On Media
Architecture	Protocol	Language Add On CD1	Non-Oss Add On CD2
i386	HTTP
	Torrents
	Metalinks
x86_64	HTTP
	Torrents
	Metalinks
ppc	HTTP
	Torrents
	Metalinks
Checksums	MD5SUMS

• Net-install ISO for i386
• Net-install ISO for x86_64
• Net-install ISO for PPC
• Mirrors Released Version
• Additional YaST Package Repositories

Further Information

For more information, visit Download Help and Installation Help.