Installing Patches Manually Using The Qt Interface - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

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.com/center/.
Novell provides updates with different relevance levels. Security updates fix severe
security hazards and should definitely be installed. Recommended updates fix issues
that could compromise your computer, whereas Optional updates fix non-security
relevant issues or provide enhancements.
To install updates and improvements with YaST, run Software > Online Update from
YaST. All new patches (except the optional ones) that are currently available for your
system are already marked for installation. Clicking Accept or Apply automatically in-
stalls these patches. After the installation has completed, confirm with Finish. Your
system is now up-to-date.
TIP: Disabling deltarpms
By default updates are downloaded as deltarpms. Since rebuilding rpm packages
from deltarpms is a memory and CPU time consuming task, certain setups or
hardware configurations might require you to disable the usage of deltarpms
for performance sake. To disable the use of deltarpms edit the file /etc/
zypp/zypp.conf and set download.use_deltarpm to false.
1.1 Installing Patches Manually Using
The Online Update window consists of four sections. The list of all patches available
is on the left. Find the description of the selected patch displayed below the list of
patches. The right column lists the packages included in the selected patch (a patch can
consist of several packages) and below, a detailed description of the selected package.
Optionally, the disk usage can be displayed at the bottom of the left column (this display
is faded out by default—use the dotted slider to make it visible).
4 Administration Guide
the Qt Interface
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