Installing Or Removing Software; Definition Of Terms - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 17-03-2009 Deployment Manual

Installing or Removing
Software
Change the software collection of your system using YaST. This YaST module is
available in three toolkit flavors: Qt, GTK+, and ncurses; Qt and GTK+ flavors are
described here.
In YaST's software management tool search for software components you want to add
or remove. YaST resolves all the dependencies for you. Add additional software
repositories to your setup to install packages not shipped with the installation media
and let YaST manage them. Keep your system up-to-date by managing software updates
with openSUSE Updater.

6.1 Definition of Terms

Repository
A local or remote directory containing packages plus additional information about
these packages (package meta-data).
(Repository) Alias
A short name for a repository used by various zypper commands. The alias can be
chosen by the user when adding a repository and has to be unique.
Product
Represents a whole product, for example SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop.

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