Their are several ways to add additional software to SuSe linux the following shows two ways one which depend on using the yast system. If you have any questions,problems or comments about this article please direct them to this topic in the forums, thanks;

http://forums.mininoteuser.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=19

not sure if internet source setup is required (don't have a mininote yet)

To enable internet sources, select “Computer” > “Control Center” > “yast”

This should bring up yast options;

In yast Options Select “Community Repositories” and select the repositories you think are necessary from the list;

suggest suitable repos.

Then click finish and it should update your software lists.

To get to yast, click on the computer button on the bottom left of the screen and select “Install Software”

You should then be prompted for your root password;

After you have entered your password correctly you should get the following interface;

It should be noted that while suse is a linux distro and so share most of it's software names with all other linux variants somethings may be named differently than you might expect, for example ubuntu's build-essentials package doesn't exist in yast or suse in fact however the software included in that package can be found, I haven't had a chance to look into this yet but you will almost certainly want gcc installed. So do a search for GCC.

Select the package you want to install of the left hand side of the interface and click on the install button. This will add the package to the to be installed list. when you are happy that you have selected all the packages you require, select “Accept” and the packages you selected will be installed.

Open a terminal by right clicking anywhere on the desktop and selecting “Open Terminal”. In that terminal type the following command;

   sudo -i

and enter your root password;

Use the following command to get a new list of packages;

  zypper update

To install software, do a command similar to this;

  zypper install <package name>

for example if I wanted to install the kernel sources I would do;

  zypper install kernel-sources

and if I wanted to install the kernel sources and fluxbox I would do;

  zypper install kernel-sources fluxbox