Software management in openSuse 10.2: Yast, rug, zypper and yum

There are several ways to manage software with the new openSUSE 10.2. Here is a short overview dealing with the different possibilities and showing each time how to add an additional installation source.

Yast
The easiest way is to use the graphical application Yast. It can handle all your software management, can resolve dependencies, check for updates and even use mirrors on the fly because Novell is using a dynamical referrer on the main download address.

If you want to add another source to openSUSE’s Yast, you have to click Software and there start the modul “Installation Source”. …

rug
rug is a command line application to access zmd. zmd is the basic daemon dealing with package management in openSUSE, while rug is just passing arguments to zmd and reporting if it worked or not. zmd will do the real stuff (like actually fetching packages and installing them, and so on).

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