January 6, 2009, 9:18 am
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.
March 5, 2008, 7:45 pm
Use YaST to encrypt partitions or parts of your file system during installation or in an already installed system. However, encrypting a partition in an already installed system is more difficult, because you have to resize and change existing partitions. In such cases, it may be more convenient to create an encrypted file of a defined size in which to store other files or parts of your file system. To encrypt an entire partition, dedicate a partition for encryption in the partition layout. The standard partitioning proposal as suggested by YaST does not, by default, include an encrypted partition. Add it manually in the partitioning dialog.
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March 5, 2008, 4:39 pm
cb400f over at kde-look.org has put together a nice way to have KDE4’s Oxygen icons in your Yast package manager for OpenSuse 10.3. Even better it’s done with one click install files.
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March 5, 2008, 4:23 pm
> your-favorite-text-editor /etc/zypp/zypp.confFind the line that states:
repo.refresh.delay = 0
and change it to whatever value you like. The value is measured in minutes. If you don’t want it to refresh for a day, a value of 1440 would work
March 5, 2008, 2:48 am
YAST can install a package from the command line or from a script. This functionality is useful if wanting to install software on a group of machines, such as a cluster.
YAST can install a package given the full path or by pulling from the software available in the listed installation sources (i.e. Those listed in YAST -> Software -> Change Source of Installation)
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