openSUSE 11.4 - first steps

Finally term is over and I'm on my Easter break, which means I can step up my contributions again.

First step was to install the new release on my desktop - openSUSE 11.4 looks really, really good!
No hassles during installation at all, took about 20mins from DVD.

Here's what I did after installation:

• I prefer using sudo, so setup sudo via visudo and tell KDE to use sudo
  

  kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group super-user-command --key super-user-command sudo

• Add yourself as a PolicyKit administrator
  Open krunner (Alt+F2) -> type "global policy" -> open "Global Policy Configuration", add users/groups as required. Now you'll be asked for your password instead of root's, just like sudo.
  

• Install subpixel hinting, and tell everything to use DejaVu fonts as defaults
  

  sudo zypper ar -f --repo http://repos.opensuse-community.org/subpixel/openSUSE_11.4/Subpixel.repo
  sudo zypper in fontconfig-feature-subpixel-hinting freetype2-feature-subpixel-hinting

• Get Yakuake working and enable autostart - can't live without it!
  

  sudo zypper in yakuake
  cp /usr/share/applications/kde4/yakuake.desktop ~/.kde4/Autostart

• Install nvidia proprietary drivers (though I was impressed how well nouveau was working this release)
  

  sudo zypper ar -f http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.4 nvidia
  sudo zypper in x11-video-nvidiaG02

• Setup ssh-agent for passwordless SSH logins (take note of bnc#682897)
  

  echo >~/.kde4/Autostart/ssh-add.sh <<EOF
  #!/bin/sh
  /usr/bin/ssh-add </dev/null
  EOF
  echo >~/.kde4/shutdown/ssh-agent.sh <<EOF
  #!/bin/sh
  /usr/bin/ssh-agent -k
  EOF
  chmod +x ~/.kde4/Autstart/ssh-add.sh ~/.kde4/shutdown/ssh-agent.sh
  

• Disable 32bit Flash player and install 64bit preview
  

  sudo zypper al flash-player
  sudo zypper rm -u nspluginwrapper
  cd Downloads
  wget -c http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz
  cd /usr/lib64/browser-plugins
  sudo tar xzf ~/Downloads/flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz
  sudo chown root:root libflashplayer.so
  sudo chmod 755 libflashplayer.so

• Add Packman Essentials and install needed codecs, and switch to Xine Phonon backend for amarok equaliser.
  

  sudo zypper ar -f --repo http://packman.inode.at/suse/11.4/Essentials/packman-essentials.repo
  sudo zypper in libxine1-codecs w32codec-all phonon-backend-xine

  Note the .repo file always points to packman.inode.at, no matter which mirror you get it from - you can change to a different packman mirror by editing /etc/zypp/repos.d/packman.repo.
  

• Install the Firefox 4.0 theme Oxygen KDE and fiddle with the many settings. Firefox 4.0 is awesomely fast, and looks really slick.

Finally we have this beautiful result!