Installing using APT

1. On SUSE 10.1 (also known now as openSUSE) install apt and apt-libs from your regular install media (CDs, FTP, whatever)
2. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list, according to this page for the usr-local-bin component. You may also want to include some of the other components that are available, such as kde packman-i686 - simply add them to the end of the line. Alternatively, download this pre-prepared sources.list and use that.
   Remember: The sources.list file is the key to APT!
3. Download the latest package information by executing:
   apt-get update
4. Upgrade your current system:
   apt-get upgrade
5. Finally, install the packages you want First install any packages that may have been 'held back' in the previous operation.
   apt-get install <insert copy and pasted list of held back packages here>
apt-get install <insert list of desired packages here>
   Any missing dependencies will be picked up from the base component.
   
6. More complete information on using APT with SuSE can be found here.
7. At any stage, if APT complains about the GPG keys of packages, replace apt-get with the wrapper script apt, and use the --no-checksig option. Alternatively, you can install the GPG signature packages for the non-SuSE package sources from here, or by adding the rpmkeys component in sources.list and running apt install --no-checksig rpmkey-*.