Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 17-03-2009 Deployment Manual page 86

WARNING: Trusting External Software Sources
Before adding external software repositories to your list of repositories, make
sure this repository can be trusted. SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop is not respon-
sible for any potential problems arising from software installed from third-
party software repositories.
To ensure the integrity software repositories can be signed with the GPG Key of the
repository maintainer. You can manage these keys in YaST—for more information,
see GPG Keys
its key. Verify it as any other GPG key and pay attention that it does not change. If you
detect a key change, something could be wrong with the repository and you should
better disable it as an installation source until you know the cause of the key change.
To add product repositories either click Software Repositories directly in the Software
pane of the YaST control center, or from within the Software Management, proceed as
follows:
1 In the Software Management start screen, select Repositories from the upper left
2 Click Add to select the media type holding the repository, for example, DVD or
3 YaST asks to insert the medium.
4 Confirm with Continue. It takes some moments until YaST has downloaded and
In the Configured Software Repositories overview find several configuration options:
Properties
By default, after adding a new repository, the repository is Enabled and the Auto-
matically Refresh is active. This means, YaST will pull in updated meta data auto-
matically and is always aware of new versions.
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(page 77). Whenever you add a new repository, YaST offers to import
drop-down menu and then click Edit to display an overview of configured soft-
ware repositories.
USB Mass Storage with the language add-ons. Then click Next and provide ad-
ditional information about the medium.
parsed the metadata of the repository. Once done you can install software from
this repository as described in
resp. Section 6.3.1, "Installing Software"
Section 6.2.1, "Installing Software"
(page 71).
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