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openSUSE Leap 16

Install, upgrade, and run openSUSE Leap 16 on the desktop and server.

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  1. 1 Install openSUSE Leap 16 Step-by-Step with Screenshots Part 1 of 19

    Install openSUSE Leap 16 Step-by-Step with Screenshots

    By the end of this guide you’ll have openSUSE Leap 16 installed and running, with a desktop, your own user account, and a system that’s ready…

    10 min read·Jun 2026
  2. 2 Upgrade openSUSE Leap 15 to Leap 16 Part 2 of 19

    Upgrade openSUSE Leap 15 to Leap 16

    openSUSE Leap 15.x is on the clock. The 15.6 release is the last of the 15 line, and Leap 16 is where the project is going…

    7 min read·Jun 2026
  3. 3 Things to Do After Installing openSUSE Leap 16 Part 3 of 19

    Things to Do After Installing openSUSE Leap 16

    You just finished the openSUSE Leap 16 install and you are staring at a clean GNOME desktop. Before it becomes your daily driver, a handful of…

    6 min read·Jun 2026
  4. 4 What’s New in openSUSE Leap 16 Part 4 of 19

    What’s New in openSUSE Leap 16

    openSUSE Leap 16 is the first major version bump the distribution has had in roughly seven years, and it is not a routine point release. Leap…

    11 min read·Jun 2026
  5. 5 zypper Command Cheat Sheet for openSUSE Leap Part 5 of 19

    zypper Command Cheat Sheet for openSUSE Leap

    If you came to openSUSE from Debian or Fedora, the command that catches you out is the upgrade one. On Leap, zypper dup does not mean…

    8 min read·Jun 2026
  6. 6 openSUSE Leap vs Tumbleweed vs SLES: Which to Choose Part 6 of 19

    openSUSE Leap vs Tumbleweed vs SLES: Which to Choose

    The question “Leap or Tumbleweed?” has a different answer in 2026 than it did a year ago, because openSUSE rebuilt how its editions relate to each…

    11 min read·Jun 2026
  7. 7 Manage openSUSE Leap with Cockpit: the YaST Replacement Part 7 of 19

    Manage openSUSE Leap with Cockpit: the YaST Replacement

    YaST is gone in openSUSE Leap 16, and the replacement most administrators reach for day to day is Cockpit, a web console that ships in the…

    10 min read·Jun 2026
  8. 8 Install Docker and Podman on openSUSE Leap 16 Part 8 of 19

    Install Docker and Podman on openSUSE Leap 16

    openSUSE Leap 16 ships with Podman already installed and Docker one command away. The catch nobody warns you about is that both want to own the…

    11 min read·Jun 2026
  9. 9 openSUSE Leap 16 Initial Server Setup and Hardening Part 9 of 19

    openSUSE Leap 16 Initial Server Setup and Hardening

    A fresh openSUSE Leap 16 server is reachable over SSH the moment it boots, and straight out of the installer it still accepts password logins and…

    8 min read·Jun 2026
  10. 10 Install Nginx Web Server on openSUSE Leap 16 Part 10 of 19

    Install Nginx Web Server on openSUSE Leap 16

    A web server is only useful once three pieces line up: the nginx package, the firewall that lets traffic reach it, and the document root it…

    8 min read·Jun 2026
  11. 11 Install Apache HTTP Server on openSUSE Leap 16 Part 11 of 19

    Install Apache HTTP Server on openSUSE Leap 16

    openSUSE Leap 16 ships Apache 2.4.66 with the prefork MPM, and the module set is driven entirely from /etc/sysconfig/apache2, not from the main httpd.conf. That single…

    7 min read·Jun 2026
  12. 12 Configure Firewalld on openSUSE Leap 16 Part 12 of 19

    Configure Firewalld on openSUSE Leap 16

    A fresh openSUSE Leap 16 server is already running firewalld, and that is the first thing to verify rather than assume. Unlike many distributions where the…

    6 min read·Jun 2026
  13. 13 Install Multimedia Codecs on openSUSE Leap 16 Part 13 of 19

    Install Multimedia Codecs on openSUSE Leap 16

    You install openSUSE Leap 16, open a music file or an MP4, and nothing plays. That is not a broken install. Leap ships without the common…

    6 min read·Jun 2026
  14. 14 Install Flatpak and Flathub Apps on openSUSE Leap 16 Part 14 of 19

    Install Flatpak and Flathub Apps on openSUSE Leap 16

    A working Flathub setup on openSUSE Leap 16 in a few minutes. Flatpak ships with the GNOME desktop, but no app store remote is configured, so…

    3 min read·Jun 2026
  15. 15 Install Ansible on openSUSE Leap 16 Part 15 of 19

    Install Ansible on openSUSE Leap 16

    You want to automate a few openSUSE boxes without hand-editing config on each one. Ansible is the clean way to do it: agentless, push over SSH,…

    5 min read·Jun 2026
  16. 16 Set Up a Static IP Address on openSUSE Leap 16 Part 16 of 19

    Set Up a Static IP Address on openSUSE Leap 16

    A server that gets its address from DHCP is fine until the lease changes and every firewall rule, DNS record, and SSH config that pointed at…

    4 min read·Jun 2026
  17. 17 Install K3s Lightweight Kubernetes on openSUSE Leap 16 Part 17 of 19

    Install K3s Lightweight Kubernetes on openSUSE Leap 16

    K3s is Kubernetes packaged as a single binary. It strips out the legacy and cloud-provider code, bundles containerd, and runs the whole control plane and a…

    5 min read·Jun 2026
  18. 18 Get Started with Agama: the New openSUSE Installer Part 18 of 19

    Get Started with Agama: the New openSUSE Installer

    If you have installed openSUSE before, the first thing you notice with Leap 16 is that the installer looks nothing like it used to. YaST is…

    5 min read·Jun 2026
  19. 19 Secure a Web Server with Let’s Encrypt SSL on openSUSE Leap 16 Part 19 of 19

    Secure a Web Server with Let’s Encrypt SSL on openSUSE Leap 16

    A web server that answers on plain HTTP sends every password and cookie across the network in the clear. Let’s Encrypt fixes that for free: it…

    7 min read·Jun 2026

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