Use Yast to Encrypt Partitions

Posted on March 5th, 2008 in OpenSuse, Security by admin

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.

Change the default theme in Yast to Oxygen (KDE4) icons

Posted on March 5th, 2008 in OpenSuse, Tweaks by admin

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.

Set The Refresh Period For Yast Package Manager

Posted on March 5th, 2008 in OpenSuse by admin

> 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

Install Software With YAST From the Command Line

Posted on March 5th, 2008 in OpenSuse by admin

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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