Worked fine for me, but I built from source (I guess that sounds harder; it was actually trivial if you're used to this kind of thing - just the usual ./configure; make; sudo make install) (note that this is for use only as a bridge - if you want to use it yourself, you should use a bundle with browser).
That response is like someone on HN who said it was easy to install third-party stuff on the Windows tablets. All you have to do is simply side-load the stuff like this...
If TOR wants widespread support, they need to create a simple tutorial with a FAQ that covers all the basic problems when you do a one-click install on Windows. If malware can be written to be easily installed and configured, then it shouldn't throw errors when you do a basic install using their Windows package that you need to Google and diagnose. If a software developer gets pissed off at their installers, what will average users think?
sorry, wasn't meant as criticism, although i do think tor try quite hard to package things - it's certainly improved over the years. perhaps posting a bug report with your issue is the best way to get them to improve?
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor
Didn't take it personally. I support TOR. I just don't like them complaining about network congestion/overloading when they don't do enough (IMO) to make it easy to expand the network.
Instructions on setting up a service on OpenSuse at http://www.acooke.org/cute/StartingTO0.html (anyone know how to make systemd switch to a different user?)