Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual page 151

Packages
Click Packages to start the package manager and select or deselect individual packages
for update. Any package conflicts should be resolved with the consistency check. The
use of the package manager is covered in detail in
ing Software" (page 122).
Backup
During the update, the configuration files of some packages may be replaced by those
of the new version. Because you may have modified some of the files in your current
system, the package manager normally makes backup copies of the replaced files. With
this dialog, determine the scope of these backups.
IMPORTANT: Scope of the Backup
This backup does not include the software. It only contains configuration files.
Language
Primary and other languages currently installed on the system are listed here. Change
them by clicking Language in the displayed configuration or with Change > Language.
Optionally, adapt the keyboard layout and time zone to the region where the primary
language is spoken. Find more about language selection in
Selection" (page 154).
Important Information about Updates
The system update is a very complex procedure. For each program package, YaST must
first check which version is installed on the computer then determine what needs to be
done to replace the old version with the new version correctly. YaST also tries to adopt
any personal settings of the installed packages.
In most cases, YaST replaces old versions with new ones without problems. A backup
of the existing system should be performed prior to updating to ensure that existing
configurations are not lost during the update. Conflicts can then be resolved manually
after the update has finished.
Section 8.3.1, "Installing and Remov-
Section 8.5.13, "Language
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