As an alternative to the way described in the following sections openSUSE 10.3 offers the possibility to easily install all the required packages automatically. This is a new feature and might still need more testing.
Open my Plone repository inside the openSUSE Build Service and choose the SUSE release. When you click on Plone.ymp your browser will call YaST which installs Plone. You can then skip the instructions concerning the manual installation procedure and continue reading in the next section at step 8 .