Additional package repositories
- For official repositories (OSS, non-OSS, Update, Update-Non-OSS) and semiofficial repositories (including KDE, GNOME and Java repositories), see Package repositories.
- For information on how to add package repositories see Add package repositories.
- For new Linux and openSUSE users, it is recommended to use the four default repositories: OSS, Non-OSS, Update and Update-Non-OSS. Later on when you familiarize yourself with package management you can add more repositories, such as Packman.
- Please make sure that you actually need a specific repository instead of blindly adding it. More repositories equates to more complexity in terms of software management, which means you will need some experience to avoid problems with your openSUSE operating system. In extreme cases system failure can occur. Please ask for help in #suse on Freenode or any of the available communication channels if you are unsure about how to add a repo or are unsure about how to install software from a repo.
Popular external repositories
Packman
Packman offers various additional packages for openSUSE, especially but not limited to multimedia related applications and libraries that are on the openSUSE Build Service application blacklist. It's the largest external repository of openSUSE packages. Packman is comprised of the following four repositories:
- Essentials: provides codecs and audio and video player applications, to fulfill the most essential needs
- Multimedia: contains many more multimedia related applications
- Extra: additional non multimedia related applications, mostly network related
- Games: obviously, games
The repositories above may be added individually be appending their name to the end of the URLs below. The latter three repositories are built upon Essentials and as such it must be added to utilize them.
All of Packman:
Version: Tumbleweed All of Packman (for all supported architectures)
sudo zypper ar -cfp 90 https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ packman
Version: Leap All of Packman (for all supported architectures)
sudo zypper ar -cfp 90 'https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_$releasever/' packman
Only Essentials:
Version: Tumbleweed Packman Essentials (for all supported architectures)
sudo zypper ar -cfp 90 https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/Essentials packman-essentials
Version: Leap Packman Essentials (for all supported architectures)
sudo zypper ar -cfp 90 'https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_$releasever/Essentials' packman-essentials
zypper dup:
After adding packman repository be sure to switch system package to those in packman as a mix of both can cause a variety of issues.
Version: all Packman
sudo zypper dup --from packman --allow-vendor-change
Version: all Packman-Essentials
sudo zypper dup --from packman-essentials --allow-vendor-change
To pick a mirror near you, please consult the mirror list on the Packman site.
VLC VideoLan client
VLC Repositories for openSUSE contains all the required libraries that are not shipped with original openSUSE. (VLC is also provided by Packman, do not add both repositories.)
Version: Tumbleweed https://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/Tumbleweed/
Version: Leap 15.2 https://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/Leap_15.2/
Version: Leap 15.3 https://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/SLEap_15.3/
AMD fglrx Catalyst video drivers
Proprietary drivers for AMD FGLRX video cards. See the AMD install HOWTO.
NVIDIA drivers
Proprietary drivers for NVIDIA video cards. See the NVIDIA install HOWTO.
Google Software Repositories for Linux
Google's repo Site for: Google Chrome, Google Earth, Google Music Manager, Google Voice and Video Chat, Google Web Designer, etc.
Version: All https://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/
Popular Build Service repositories
The openSUSE Build Service contains a large variety of additional repositories.
Apache
openSUSE Build Service Repository for the Apache HTTP server. See the guides at Apache.
Version: Tumbleweed https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Apache/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
Version: Leap 15.2 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Apache/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/
Version: SLE 12 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Apache/SLE_12/
Version: SLE 11 SP4 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Apache/SLE_11_SP4/
Apache modules
Third-party Apache modules built for the Build Service Apache.
Version: Tumbleweed https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Apache:/Modules/Apache_openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
Version: SLE 11 SP4 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Apache:/Modules/Apache_SLE_11_SP4/
Third-party Apache modules built for the standard distro Apache.
Version: Tumbleweed https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Apache:/Modules/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
Version: SLE 11 SP4 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Apache:/Modules/SLE_11_SP4/
Apache PHP modules
There are variants. See the LAMP guide, for a separate page which will guide you to the correct PHP repository.
If you use the Build Service Apache from above, you'll find the right mod_php for your system here.
Extensions:
Version: Leap 15.2 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/php:/extensions/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/
Applications:
Version: Tumbleweed https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/php:/applications/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
Version: Leap 15.2 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/php:/applications/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/
Other HTTP Servers
openSUSE Build Service Repository for other HTTP servers (Nginx, Lighttpd, ...).
Version: Tumbleweed https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/http/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
Version: Leap 15.3 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/http/openSUSE_Leap_15.3/
Version: Leap 15.2 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/http/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/
Database Servers
openSUSE Build Service Repository for other Database servers (SQL and NoSQL: MySQL, MongoDB, etc.)
Version: Tumbleweed https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/database/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
Version: SLE 12 SP5 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/database/SLE_12_5P3/
Games
openSUSE:Games is a very active packaging project
Version: Tumbleweed https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
Version: Leap 15.2 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games:/tools/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/
Mozilla
Most recent versions of Firefox, Thunderbird, Seamonkey, etc.
Version: Tumbleweed https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
Version: Leap 15.3 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_Leap_15.3/
Version: Leap 15.2 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/
Version: SLE 12 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/SLE_12/
Science
Software for engineering and natural science. See Portal:Science.
Version: Tumbleweed https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
Version: Leap 15.3 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/openSUSE_Leap_15.3/
Version: Leap 15.2 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/
Version: SLE 12 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/SLE_12/
Version: SLE 11 SP4 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/SLE_11_SP4/
Wine
Most recent versions of Wine.
Version: Tumbleweed https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
Version: SLE 11 SP4 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/SLE-11-SP4/