European Wafaa

Yes my new shiny net connection is up and running, to be honest has been for almost a week now. The guys and gals over at Be are brilliant! I genuinely can't praise them enough.

I'm off on some travels coming up, and there is an app that I quite like which allows me to watch telly on my computer without having to have a TV Tuner - Zattoo. This works in the UK, Germany, Belgium, France, Norway, Denmark, Spain and Switzerland, and they are adding more countries as they go along. This used to work like a charm on 10.3 and I thought I'd install it on my 11.0 machines (I'm taking both my Vaio and eeePC), problem it doesn't work out of the box

The solution is pretty easy though. So to get Zattoo running on your openSUSE 11.0 machine just do the following:
1) Ensure you have Adobe's Flash player installed (I don't know if it'll work with gnash or swfdec) zypper in flash-player.
2) You will need libcurl3 so add Yaloki's backport repo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pbleser:/backports/openSUSE_11.0 pbleser:backport, and install it zypper in libcurl3
3) Download the RPM from the website
4) Install gtkglext. A simple zypper in gtkglext will work
5) Install Zattoo. I personally just did zypper in $PATH/TO/zattoo-3.2.4.15876-1.i386.rpm
6) They (Zattoo) advise you to run /sbin/ldconfig /usr/lib/zattoo
7) Launch the app, I would recommend doing it from a terminal first time round so you can see any errors should there be any - zattoo_player

There you go, you can now watch TV without the need of a TV tuner, yes OK you need a net connection. What do you want , the moon on a stick?!