Installing Opensuse 15.3 On Dell Inspiron 3000

Overall, OpenSUSE is a better option than Ubuntu on this device. Hibernate works out of the box and there’s no enabling it as an option in the power menus to do - it’s all ready. So the following is just a list of post-install tasks, with a lot of overlap with the (X)Ubuntu list.

Install Chrome

sudo zypper ar http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 Google-Chrome

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

sudo rpm --import linux_signing_key.pub

sudo zypper update

sudo zypper install google-chrome-stable

Install Sublime Text

Not available from a third party repo, as with Ubuntu, and must be installed via snap. On the plus side, snap just seems to work with less fuss.

sudo zypper addrepo --refresh https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_Leap_15.3 snappy

sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh

sudo zypper dup --from snappy

sudo zypper install snapd

sudo systemctl enable snapd

sudo systemctl start snapd

sudo snap install sublime-text --classic

Update Python

Since writing this I’ve see the light regarding pyenv which is much better option for managing Python versions whether using OpenSUSE or another distro.

OpenSUSE 15.3 comes with Python 3.6 which is not ideal. The process for getting a newer version seems to land you with….3.6. So more to be done here.

• Add the repo:

zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:languages:python/openSUSE_Leap_15.3/devel:languages:python.repo

• Get the number of the added repo (from the left hand column of the output):

sudo zypper lr

• Set the new repo to have a higher priority than the built-in OpenSUSE repos, refresh and update Python 3:

sudo zypper mr -p 50 PYTHON_REPO_NUMBER
sudo zypper ref
sudo zypper update python3

• Whichever Python 3 you end up with, install virtualenv with:

pip3 install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper

…and add the following to ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc.

export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3
export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
export PROJECT_HOME=$HOME/projects
source $HOME/.local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

Install zsh/oh-my-zsh

• Install

zypper in zsh
sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"

• Remember to change zsh theme

Install Ruby

sudo zypper install git gcc automake gdbm-devel libyaml-devel ncurses-devel readline-devel zlib-devel libopenssl-devel readline-devel

git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv

cd ~/.rbenv && src/configure && make -C src

mkdir -p "$(rbenv root)"/plugins

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.0/install.sh | bash

• Add the following to ~.,zshrc

export PATH=”$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH”

eval “$(rbenv init -)”

Install Node

• There may be a more recent version of NVM by the time you are reading this, in which case check the version number:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.0/install.sh | bash

• Add the following to ~/.zshrc

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion