On Tuesday 29 September 2009 03:50:31 am Robert P. J. Day wrote:
again, as a relative suse newbie, i'm wondering what people consider the fundamental package management tools in opensuse/SLES/SLED.
Robert, as everyone has stated rpm, zypper and yast. What I would add is, do yourself a favor and learn zypper from the command line. It is much more flexible than the yast gui interface and a ...whole lot faster when you know what you want to do. zypper help then zypper help topic (example: "zypper help in" for install options) The zypper man page is good as well. If you don't know yet, you can just open up konqueror and type "#manyouwant" in the URL location and you can view man pages in a nice gui format (example: #zypper) will bring up the zypper man page. The good thing about it is all the related program links, etc. are all hyperlinks in the gui so you can easily jump to where ever you need to go with a single click of the mouse. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org