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RCE and ZENworks
Opencarpet, Red Carpet Enterprise, or ZENworks services are only available if
your company or organization has set up these services within your internal network.
This might, for example, be the case if your organization is using third-party soft-
ware for which updates are deployed on a single server.
After SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop is installed, two services are preconfigured: your
installation source (DVD, CD-ROM, or network resource) as a ZYPP service, and a
SUSE Linux Enterprise update server as a service, which is added during product reg-
istration. Normally, there is no need to change these settings. If you do not see a service,
open a terminal and execute the suse_register command as root. A service is
added automatically.
Catalogs
Services are able to provide packages for different pieces of software or for different
software versions (typically RCE or ZENworks services do so). These are organized
in different categories called catalogs. Subscribe or unsubscribe from a catalog by
marking or unmarking the check box in front of it.
At the moment, the SUSE Linux services (YUM and ZYPP) do not provide different
catalogs. Each service only has one catalog. If the Software Updater was configured
during installation or with suse_register, it subscribes to the YUM and ZYPP
catalogs automatically. If you manually add a service, you must subscribe to its catalogs.
WARNING
To install packages from a catalog, you must be subscribed to this catalog. If
you unsubscribe, the packages from this catalog are still listed in the update
window, but you cannot install them.
Preferences
On the Preferences tab, specify whether Software Updater should be launched at startup
or not. As the root user, you can also modify the Software Updater settings. As a
nonprivileged user, you can only view the settings. See the rug man page for an expla-
nation of the settings.
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