Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 11-05-2007 Installation Manual page 213

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To see your registered services, use rug sl. If you want to add a new service and you
are not sure which services are supported on your system, use rug st.
To check for available patches, use rug pch. To view information about a patch, enter
rug patch-info patch.
9.1.2 Subscribing to rug Services
By default, a newly installed system is subscribed to several services. To add a new
service, use rug sa URI service_name. Replace service_name with a
meaningful and unique string that identifies the new service. Information about addi-
tional installation sources is provided at
http://en.opensuse.org/
Installation_Sources.
9.1.3 Installing and Removing Software with
rug
To install a package from any subscribed catalogs, use rug in package_name.
To install from a selected catalog only, add --entire-catalog and the catalog to
install use to the command. View information about a package with rug if
package_name.
To remove a package, use rug rm package_name. If other packages depend on
this package, rug displays their names, versions, and types. Confirm removal of the
package.
9.1.4 rug User Management
One of the biggest advantages of rug is user management. Normally only root can
update or install new packages. With rug, you can distribute the right to update the
system to other users and restrict them, for example, only to updating without the pos-
sibility to remove software. Privileges you can grant are:
install
The user may install new software
Managing Software with ZENworks
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