Add a network printer through Yast under openSUSE

Some day ago I got a brand new Xerox multifunction Wi-fi printer (B215 model for the record), so what’s the best chance to test the power and the ease of use of Yast to install it? This is also my first Wi-fi printer and I was very curious to see how user-friendly was the procedure, without knowing anything about the supported protocols.

openSUSE 15.1 to 15.2 upgrade notes

In a previous article I have shown how to upgrade a distro using zypper, but after the first reboot some issue might always happen, that’s why I collected all the changes and the tweaks I applied switching from openSUSE 15.1 to 15.2.

Rollback a package installation under openSUSE

Even if the 99,9% of times all the applications released through the official repositories are reliable and perfectly working, sometime a buggy package might get installed on our systems after an update. With a few steps we can rollback to the previous version taking advantage of the feature made available by package managers and repositories.

Add an application to the KDE system menu

Whether you are compiling an application yourself, or you are just using a binary tarball archive, having a method to notify the Desktop Environment about the installed software to have a shortcut in the system menu or just register it to handle a certain MIME type, it is for sure a comfortable adding. If that method is also widely adopted among several, if not the major part, of Desktop Environment available, then it becomes a must!

Sysroot does not seem to be an OS tree

Sometimes error messages can result in more scared than they are, especially those strictly related to the boot loading. In that situation, when the error message is not much clear, we wrongly assume that a clean reinstallation is the only solution.