On Tuesday, January 9, 2018 2:52:52 PM EST Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Tuesday, 2018-01-09 at 07:28 -0500, David T-G wrote:
Hi, all --
What's the preferred/right/best/easiest way to install & update software on my Leap system? I grew up on YaST (and then YaST2), but I keep seeing folks using zypper, and there are even occasional comments about apt. My goal is simply to be able to find the most software the most easily and reliably, since it's already challenging enough to know which RPM repositories and archives to search...
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I sometimes use zypper, but I use YaST the most. I can see the consequences of my acts before commiting and I can do changes or abort.
Way back in the SuSE days there was a great (well, I thought it was) how-to published showing how to do an upgrade with YaST. I've mostly used that method ever since and only occasionally use zypper, never for a full upgrade. My primary reason is similar to what Carlos writes above: I can easily see all of the changes about to be made, and can manually resolve conflicts - of which I always have quite a few because I use quite a few repositories. That said, in recent years for new releases I have gravitated towards using the DVD instead. With major releases I suspect that there are changes made relative to configurations or architecture or hardware, that are not captured by just a package update. Apparently though zypper includes everything that is needed, so I'm quite unsure about this. (I sure wish someone could verify whether this is so or not.) For me, comes down to using the best tool for the particular update, and which system I'm updating. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org