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Originally Posted by daewon
This is so irritating...I sent all this money on something i had faith in and it turns out i can't even use it...Come on devs...I see there's been the debian package out for about a year...Does it take that long to do an rpm package? I understand the touch was shipped with not so ready for prime time firmware? You should make people more aware of that who do not use the most mainstream operating systems and might be screwed if they buy the touch not knowing it may end up not being able to use without having to just through a mile of hoops...I swear i am so totally ready to return this and go o something else...
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Howdy Daewon,
The developer responsible for providing an unsupported build of the Kobo Desktop to Linux users happens to be me. Unfortunately it's not within my means to target every single distribution - it'd mean the company would have more unsupported than supported software.
You've been given several answers to help you along, and given that you're a Linux user I'm hoping you should be accustomed to doing things from the command line. In brief, download 'alien' using OpenSUSE's package management system. If it's not provided by OpenSUSE, then please download it from the Internet using a searchtool like Google. Once you have alien, you can run this:
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sudo alien -r kobo-desktop.deb
It should create a .rpm from the .deb file. Don't forget to download the .deb file if you haven't. Now you can install it using whatever tool installs .rpms on OpenSUSE. You may need to resolve some dependency issues around libzip or if you're running a 64-bit version of OpenSUSE.