Using The Qt Interface - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 17-03-2009 Deployment Manual

Pattern
A pattern is an installable list of packages needed for a special purpose. Examples
are Base System, providing the openSUSE basic system, or GNOME Base
System, containing all packages needed to run the GNOME Desktop environment.
Package
A package is a compressed file in rpm format that contains the files for a particular
program.
Patch
A patch consists of one or more packages—either full packages or patchrpm or
deltarpm packages— and may also introduce dependencies to packages that are
not installed yet.
Resolvable
An generic term for product, pattern, package or patch. The most commonly used
type of resolvable is a package or a patch.
patchrpm
A patchrpm consists only of files that have been updated since it was first released
for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11. Its download size is usually considerably
smaller than the size of a package.
deltarpm
A deltarpm consists only of the binary diff between two defined versions of a
package and therefore, has the smallest download size. Before being installed, the
rpm package has to be rebuilt on the local machine.

6.2 Using the Qt Interface

Start the YaST Qt interface on the command line with yast2 --qt.
6.2.1 Installing Software
Software is available via RPM packages. Each package contains the program itself, the
configuration files, and additional documentation. If you want to add more software to
the system, proceed as follows:
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