Installing and configuring the Smart package manager.

For those who haven't experienced the smart package manager, give it a go, it's worthwhile. You'll need to install the base packages smart and smart-gui with the following command

sudo /sbin/yast -i smart smart-gui

Once this is done, create the following files in /etc/smart/channels (you'll probably need to create the channels directory.

Create packman.channel with the following text (this will give you access to codecs and mythtv):

[packman]
name = Packman 3rd Party Package Repository
baseurl = http://packman.inode.at/suse/10.1
type = yast2
mirror = http://packman.inode.at/suse/10.1
mirror = http://packman.mirrors.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/10.1
mirror = http://packman.rsync.zmi.at/suse/10.1
mirror = http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/packman/suse/10.1

and if you want to get the updated versions of smart, create a guru.channel file with the following:

[guru]
name = Guru 3rd party package repository
baseurl = http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.1
type = yast2
mirror = http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/suser-guru/rpm/10.1

There are a heap of other channels available, another one I highly recommend for users with nvidia cards is
nvidia.channel

[nvidia]
name = nVidia Binary Drivers
baseurl = ftp://download.nvidia.com/novell
type = rpm-md

Using this will allow you to upgrade your kernel without suffering the inconvenience of having to recompile the video kernel modules.

Anyways, I hope this helps a bit, feel free to comment and suggest more channels.