Tux Training

A quick how to for using zypper to manage repositories in Opensuse.

You can specify existing repositories by their number in the list produced by zypper lr, alias, or URI. When using the numbers, make sure you always check zypper lr first, as the numbers may change after you made some changes to the repositories. Continue reading ‘Repository management with zypper in Opensuse 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.

Zypper, a command line package manager using the package management library called Libzypp. Zypper’s syntax is similar to that of rug but its command and option set has started to diversify from rug as well as its output and behavior. However, zypper is able to work also in rug-compatible mode.

Continue reading ‘Basics of Managing Software with Zypper in OpenSuse’ »