long story short, last year i forsook (is that a word?) linux for freebsd. goodbye fedora. fast forward a bit, i find i have an app i am unable to run in freebsd, even with linux_emulation, so im back to having one linux box on my network. after careful consideration of distros with all features i need, i end up on suse (i did all my testing from a desktop approach, using my ibm laptop... i figure if it will do a desktop im satisfied with, linux is linux, ill probably be happy with it as a server as well). ok time passes, and i have a linux server back in production (for vmware-server). my biggest pain, is performing system updates from a command line only. forgive me forgive me (for comparing suse to fedora), but in fedora what i want to accommplish is a simple as: yum -y update (wait, done, reboot if necessary). or if i want to pull down something that is not installed: yum -y install [packagename] (wait, done) how can i accomplish these tasks, as simply, in suse? even tho i feel uneasy about the recenent goings on, i still prefer to stay with suse rather than switch back to fedora. i know yast is quite powerful, but ive never learned the ins and outs, and each time i try to update the system with yast, im told to either insert my dvd, or that the media in the drive does not match my system. i must be taking a wrong turn somewhere. tips, links to definitive command line guides, or any general adivce would be truly apprecated. cheers, jonathan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org