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Hello,
I would like to install MuseScore on openSUSE Tumbleweed. The official MuseScore repository, multimedia:musescore2, only appears in "non-supported distributions" for openSUSE Tumblewed. There is no 1-click-install link for it, but I can download RPMs manually. Otherwise, there are two other repositories that offer MuseScore 2 : home:ecsos and home:ganglia:musescore2. So, what is the recommended way to install MuseScore on Tumbleweed ?
For openSUSE Leap 42.1 (last stable version), there is no multimedia:musescore2 repository available. Will it be released soon ?
Thank you.
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Have you tried here? (Note: this is where the "1 Click Install" link on the Downloads page leads.) I believe the packages are considered unstable *because* they are not in the official OpenSUSE repos, but I think I am right in saying that it is necessary to have them outside of the official repos in order that we can update them between OpenSUSE releases.
In reply to Have you tried here? (Note: by shoogle
In fact, I am talking you about what is on this page.
If you select there "openSUSE Tumbleweed" and then accept showing unstable packages (you are right, all unofficial packages are marked as possibly unstable), there are five different repositories providing the musescore package. Three of them provide an old version, which I am not interested in, but there are two of them offering musescore 2.0.2. Furthermore, if you go to the bottom of the page, you can click onto "show packages for non supported distributions" and here is openSUSE Tumbleweed again. This section does not offer 1-click-install (this means, automatically adding the repository and installing the packages), but there is the "multimedia:musescore2" (official MuseScore repository ?) from which you can download a RPM manually.
So, my questions are :
Which version should I take ?
Is "multimedia:musescore2" an official repository from MuseScore ?
In reply to In fact, I am talking you by Aurélien Murith
Ah, I see where the misunderstanding lies. There isn't really an "official" MuseScore repository, or at least it depends on what you mean by "official". To my knowledge, nothing is owned or maintained by the core team apart from the websites, source code and the Windows and Mac binaries. All of the Linux binaries are maintained by volunteers from the community, so the fact that one volunteer called their repo "multimedia:musescore" and another called theirs "home:ecsos" is neither here nor there. However, all of the MuseScore repos in that link are "official" in the sense that they are linked to on the official Download page. So one set of people write the software, and another set package it for distributions. Such arrangements are common in the open source world.
As for which repo should you use, presumably you want the one with the latest version (2.0.2).