Installing Portmaster RPM package on openSUSE Tumbleweed fails

[Atalanttore]

What happened: I wanted to install the RPM installation package from Portmaster v1.0.11 on openSUSE Tumbleweed. That is why I downloaded this package.

What did you expect to happen?: A flawless installation.

What happened instead: I used zypper for the installation. The libnetfilter_queue dependency was not found.

Log:

sudo zypper install ./portmaster-installer.rpm
[sudo] password for root:
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

Problem: nothing provides 'libnetfilter_queue' needed by the to be installed portmaster-1.0.0~2-1.x86_64
 Solution 1: do not install portmaster-1.0.0~2-1.x86_64
 Solution 2: break portmaster-1.0.0~2-1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/c/d/?] (c):

[vlabo]

We don't have an official support for OpenSUSE. OpenSUSE is using the same package format as Fedora but both distors have differences and that means that RPM packages are not 100% compatible.

One solution is to try to manually install libnetfilter_queue before trying to install it again. If it does not work you can just install it manually, here is a guide how to do it https://docs.safing.io/portmaster/install/linux#manual-install-and-launching.

[Atalanttore]

@vlabo Adding a repository named “security:netfilter” gives access to a package named libnetfilter_queue1.

There is no package named libnetfilter_queue for openSUSE Tumbleweed. The available package libnetfilter_queue1 is unfortunately not found by the Portmaster RPM package.

[archerallstars]

@Atalanttore

I am also on Tumbleweed. I successfully install Portmaster in an Ubuntu distrobox with --root. However, I would prefer to run it natively. Did you try to symlinking the lib names?

[Atalanttore]

@kreaninw No, I scrapped the use of Portmaster, since openSUSE is only supported with tinkering at best.