How To Get QT zypper GUI in GNOME YAST in OpenSuse 11-11.1
Alrighty, this will be a really short howto, but I would never have known I could do this if it hadn’t been mentioned offhand here, and so I figure others might benefit as well.
The discussion at the link above boils down to an opinion that the YAST “Software Management” button under KDE brings up a more usable and functional interface than in GNOME. I now share that opinion, and thanks to this switch I no longer pine for synaptic.
It’s super easy.
- As root do “zypper in yast2-qt-pkg” from a terminal session, *OR* use “Software Management” from within YAST to search for and install it.
- From within YAST, click “/etc/sysconfig Editor” in the “System” section.
- Expand System–>Yast2–>GUI–>WANTED_GUI
- Change the setting of WANTED_GUI from auto to qt.
- Click “Finish”, acknowledge any prompts, and you are done.
